Negotiation and resistance : peasant agency in high medieval France / Constance Brittain Bouchard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bouchard, Constance Brittain, author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peasants--France, Northern--Social conditions.

Peasants.

Peasants--France, Northern--Economic conditions.

Autonomy (Psychology)--France--History--To 1500.

Autonomy (Psychology).

Civilization, Medieval.

France--History--Medieval period, 987-1515.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.

Summary:

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. This book upends the received view of this period in French history as one in which lords dealt harshly and without opposition toward subservient peasants, offering numerous examples of peasants standing up for themselves.

Contents:

Peasant status and the meanings of serfdom

Peasants, property, and payments

Peasants, religion, and the church

Peasants, new towns, and communes

Peasant agency: initiative and resistance.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 22, 2023).

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Bouchard, Constance Brittain Negotiation and Resistance

ISBN:

9781501766589

1501766589

9781501766602

1501766600

OCLC:

1296687384