Social Relations and Ideas
Essays in Honour of R. H. Hilton

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Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction Edward Miller
1. The origins of the manor in England with a postscript T. H. Aston
2. The extent and profitability of Demesne agriculture in England in the later eleventh century Sally P. J. Harvey
3. Feudalism and its decline: a semantic exercise M. M. Postan
4. The matron and the mis-married woman: perceptions of marriage in northern France circa 1100 Georges Duby
5. Literature and social terminology: the Vavasour in England P. R. Cross
6. The struggles between the Abbots of Halesowen and their tenants in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Zvi Razi
7. Poverty in Piers Plowman Geoffrey Shepherd
8. English diet in the later Middle Ages Christopher Dyer
9. Economic change in later medieval England: an archaeological review G. G. Astill
10. Serfdom in later medieval and early modern Germany Heide Wunder
11. Time, space and use in Early Russia R. E. F. Smith
12. Plough and pen: agricultural writers in the seventeenth century Joan Thirsk
Bibliography of R. H. Hilton's works to January 1982 Jean Birrell
Index.

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