PHILLIPP R. SCHOFIELD has held research posts in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and is now Lecturer in Medieval History in the Department of History and Welsh History at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of a number of articles on the medieval English peasantry.

'This is an excellent and welcome textbook for everyone with an interest or specialism in the field of medieval peasants generally, but for undergraduate students in particular, who will find this very useful indeed (and I will certainly recommend it to them).' - Dr Miriam Muller, University of Birmingham

• Introduction: Peasant and Community PART I: LAND Land: Tenure, Landholding and Rent Determinants of Peasant Landholding The Transfer of Peasant Land PART II: FAMILY Family and Household Peasant Marriage and Household Formation: Issues and Influences PART III: WORLDS BEYOND: MARKET, CROWN AND CHURCH Peasants and the Market Peasants and Politics Peasants and Religion Conclusion Notes Further Reading Index