The Medieval Village by G. G. Coulton

Author:G. G. Coulton [Coulton, G. G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780486158600
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-24T04:00:00+00:00

On p. 176, v. Arx records other instances of the monks’ tenacity of their legal rights; but he leaves the same general impression which may be gathered from other sources, that tenants were, on the whole, rather better off on monastic estates than on others.

In his third volume, dealing with the Reformation period, he deals briefly again with the serfs (pp. 280 ff.): “Serfdom, which from century to century had lost something of its old severity, was almost altogether abolished by the Reformation and the humaner spirit of the time “1129.

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