Villainage In England: Essays In English Medieval History by Paul Vinogradoff - 2005-01-30

2005. ISBN-13: 9781584774778; ISBN-10: 1584774770. Vinogradoff, Sir Paul. Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History. Originally published: Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1892. xii, 464 pp. Reprinted 2005, 2019 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584774778. Hardcover. New. $28.95 * Vinogradoff argues that the Norman-era villain was the direct descendent of the Anglo-Saxon freeman, so the typical Anglo-Saxon settlement was a free community rather than a manor. An impressive work of original scholarship and synthesis, it "shed a wholly new light on the social and legal aspects of the institution of villainage." William Holdsworth, The Historians of Anglo-American Law 86. "Perhaps the most important book written on the peasantry of the feudal age and the village community in England; it can only be compared for value with F.W. Maitland's Domesday Book and Beyond." Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th. ed.) 28:100. Justly famous as a comparative lawyer and historian of roman law, Paul… Read More

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