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Autore |
Freedman Paul H. <1949-> |
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Titolo |
The origins of peasant servitude in medieval Catalonia / / Paul Freedman |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1991 |
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ISBN |
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0-511-09783-2 |
0-511-58363-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvii, 263 pages) : illustrations, maps ; digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge Iberian and Latin American studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Serfdom - Spain - Catalonia - History |
Peasants - Spain - Catalonia - History |
Peasant uprisings - Spain - Catalonia - History |
Catalonia (Spain) Rural conditions |
Catalonia (Spain) History |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibligraphical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface List of maps List of tables List of abbreviations 1. Introduction: medieval serfdom and Catalonia 2. Enduring characteristics of rural Catalonia 3. The free peasants of the ninth to eleventh centuries 4. Changes in the status of peasants: late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries 5. Catalan servitude in the thirteenth century 6. Effects of the Black Death 7. Peasant agitation and civil war, 1388-1486 Conclusion: origins of Catalan servitude Appendices Notes Bibliography Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, and achieved the formal abolition of servitude. Professor Freedman seeks to explain both the process by which servitude was strengthened over the centuries, and its eventual weakening before a direct moral and military |
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