Bondage

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BONDAGE. Slavery.

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What guided the industrial development and the entrepreneurial spirit in this part of the country, may have been the limited possibilities for being competitive in agricultural production, and the fact that adscription, copyholding and villeinage were not very strongly enforced and present.

Social patterns behind strategic action

In the early medieval period, some farmers actually chose to abandon free status in favor of villeinage "for greater security of tenure, or as a bar to pleas of debt, or to support claims of inheritance." POSTAN, supra note 55, at 284.

Four land ethics: order, reform, responsibility, opportunity

Article 4, which asserted that `slavery shall be abolished', was revolutionary in a country where peasants had no rights and where villeinage still existed.

Napoleon and Polish identity

He examines demesnes, labor services, villeinage, crops, leases, home consumption, rents, natural resources, animal products, and many other matters in detail.

A Gentry Community: Leicestershire in the Fifteenth Century, c. 1422-c. 1485

Hyams, Kings, Lords and Peasants in Medieval England: The Common Law of Villeinage in the Twelfth and the Thirteenth Centuries (Oxford, 1980), ch.

Peasants and the manor court: gossip and litigation in a Suffolk village at the close of the thirteenth century