Lennard, Reginald
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 1997 (reprint of 1959 edition).
cloth, dj., cloth, dj., 409 pp. ISBN: 0-19-821272-0. Fine.
Book Number 17345
This book is concerned with the social and economic conditions of life in rural England during the Norman period. It deals with the great estates and the geographical incidence of feudal landlordsÌ power; with the methods of estate management, the Îfarming outÌ of manors, and leasehold conditions; with local and regional varieties in rural economy and manorial organization; and with the holdings and obligations of the peasantry. Flour-mills, sheep-farming and woodland pig-farming are among the topics considered; and a chapter is devoted to village churches and clergy and their endowments.