'Its scholarship, which is actually exhaustively patient, interferes not one whit with its open, positively exciting readability … No student of literature, no lover of medieval past should be without its modest assistance. In itself it has the quiet charm of unpretentious knowledge; as a bridge to an age not easily approached, it is of profound usefulness.' The Saturday Review

• Author's preface; Dedicatory letter; Prologue: a faire felde ful of folke; 1. The church; 2. The manor and its cultivation; 3. The manorial population; 4. The peasant's year; 5. Rents and services; 6. Servile burdens; 7. Manorial administration; 8. The manor court; 9. Everyday life; 10. 'Merrie England'; 11. The road to freedom; 12. The church; Glossary; Abbreviations and authorities; Index.

'Its scholarship, which is actually exhaustively patient, interferes not one whit with its open, positively exciting readability … No student of literature, no lover of medieval past should be without its modest assistance. In itself it has the quiet charm of unpretentious knowledge; as a bridge to an age not easily approached, it is of profound usefulness.' The Saturday Review

• Author's preface; Dedicatory letter; Prologue: a faire felde ful of folke; 1. The church; 2. The manor and its cultivation; 3. The manorial population; 4. The peasant's year; 5. Rents and services; 6. Servile burdens; 7. Manorial administration; 8. The manor court; 9. Everyday life; 10. 'Merrie England'; 11. The road to freedom; 12. The church; Glossary; Abbreviations and authorities; Index.