Duby Georges. Rural economy and country life in the medieval West

Edward Arnold ltd, 1968. — 600 p.Preface to the French Edition.
Preface to the English Edition.Land and Labour.
Settlement of the Soil. Systems of Production and Organization of the Village Lands.
How Many Men Were There?
The Tools.
Agricultural Practices.
Wealth and Society. The Manorial Economy.
The Framework of the Family.
The Great Landed Estates.
Farming the Demesne.
The Destination of the Demesne Profits.
Differences in manorial structure.
The Great Estate and the Peasant Economy.
The Extension of the Arable.
The Advance of the Arable.
The Enlargement of the Ancient Village Territories.
The New Villages.
The Settlement of the Intervening Spaces.
Work in the Fields.
Cycles of Cultivation.
Yields.
Working the Land.
Agricultural Expansion and the Structure of Society.
The Condition of the Peasant.
The Family Farm.
Demographic Growth.
Overpopulation.
The Growth of Exchange and its Effects.
Demand.
The Mechanism of Trade: money and markets.
The Corn Trade.
Wine.
Products of Forest and Pasture.
Commercial Growth and Social Development.
The Village Community and the Entrepreneurs.
Wealth and Power in the XI and XII Centuries.
The Landed Patrimony of the Great Religious Foundations.
Lay Fortunes.
Power over the Peasants.
Lords and Peasants in the XI and XII Centuries.
Manorial landownership.
The Exploitation of Men.
The XIII Century (1180-1330): Evolution of Feudal Rent: Peasant Dues.
The Mobilization of Seigneurial Wealth.
The Decline of Rents.
Rising profits: Fines on Transfers of Property.
The Exploitation of the Power over Men: Tallage.
Peasant Indebtedness and its Effects.
The XIII Century (1180-1330): The Exploitation of the Demesne.
England.
The Continent.
Conclusion - Peasants and the Manor on the Eve of the XIV Century.
New Features in the Rural Economy.
The Catastrophes.
The Depopulation of the Countryside.
The Shrinking of the Cultivated Area.
Evolution of Prices and Wages.
An Interpretation.
The Decay ofthe Manorial Economy.
The Decline of Direct Cultivation.
Fixed Payments.
The Peasants.
Popular Revolts.
The Rich and the Poor.
Agricultural Production.
Peasants and Traders.
Documents.
XI-XIII Centuries. The Expansion.
The Manor. XI-XII Centuries.
XIII Century. Lords and Peasants.
XIV-XV Centuries.