HISA04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Economic Mobility, Black Death, Gender Role
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The transition from feudalism to capitalism: the classic case: western europe. Historians use of theory and conceptual building blocks. March bloch - a french history who was one of the first to write about feudalism and was the first to ask how ordinary people . Rodney hilton - hilton"s work is focused on the debates in history over the transition between. A shorthand that historians use to signal a set of political, economic, social situations (we will be looking specifically at feudalism and capitalism). In a mode of production there are relationships between people that explain how a mode of production functions. For example, the relationship between serfs and lords. Emerges after the collapse of the roman empire. Feudal society was hierarchical: monarch, nobility, lords, serfs/peasants. Serfs were tied to the land, you couldn"t leave the land, you needed to provide a agricultural surplus to the lord, you may also be conscripted.
