Originally published in 1955, this volume was created to give an account of the lives of a few men and women of the fifteenth century, enabling the reader to understand... Læs mere
This account of the Pastons' England reveals an age of historical transition as it was played out in the daily challenges of individual lives.
This account of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of his lord and the church in a pattern of customary dues and rights, payments, labours and small privileges.