The Origins of English Individualism: The Family Property and Social Transition

Apologies and acknowledgements viii

Abbreviations and conventions x

List of abbreviated titles xi

Introduction 1

1 The nature of a peasant society 7

2 When England ceased to be a peasant society: Marx, Weber and the historians 34

3 English economy and society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 62

4 Ownership in England from 1350 to 1750 80

5 Ownership in England from 1200 to 1349 102

6 English economy and society in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries 131

7 England in perspective 165

8 Some implications 189

Postscript 204

List of manuscript sources 207

Index 210