Negotiation and Resistance: Peasant Agency in High Medieval France

by Constance Brittain Bouchard

Book Overview

In Negotiation and Resistance, Constance Brittain Bouchard challenges familiar depictions of the peasantry as an undifferentiated mass of impoverished and powerless workers. Peasants in eleventh- and twelfth-century France had far more scope for action, self-determination, and resistance to oppressive treatment--that is, for agency--than they are usually credited with having.

Through innovative readings of documents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501766589
• ISBN13: 9781501766589
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"