Origins Peasant Servitude Cata

by Paul Freedman

Book Overview

This 1991 book describes the history of peasants in Catalonia, the wealthiest and politically dominant part of the medieval Kingdom of Aragon, between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. It focuses on the period from 1000 to 1300, when free peasants who had held property under favourable frontier conditions were progressively subjugated by their lords. Between 1462 and 1486 Catalan peasants mounted the most successful peasants' war of the Middle Ages,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521393272
• ISBN13: 9780521393270
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"