Abstract
In their membership of a broad array of institutions — manor, market, state and church — peasants in medieval England enjoyed a superficially ‘common’ experience and in the expression of that membership emerged bonds and indications of membership and non-membership which could be employed to the advantage and further security of ‘community’.
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E. Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars. Traditional Religion in England, 1400–1580 ( New Haven, CT, 1992 ), 71–3.
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J. M. Bennett, A Medieval Life. Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, c.1295–1344 (McGraw-Hill, 1999).
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Schofield, P.R. (2003). Conclusion. In: Peasant and Community in Medieval England, 1200–1500. Medieval Culture and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230802711_10
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