"Sylvia Thrupp has brought together nineteen studies, all written in the twentieth century, which illustrate change and diversity in Northern Europe during the Middle Ages.  This excellent collection will be a valuable addition to the required reading list of any course in medieval history. With imaginative grasp of the many kinds of experience in which the values and consciousness of a period must be sought, Miss Thrupp has included studies in the history of medicine, science, and art, as well as those focusing on social, economic, and political phenomena. Virtually all the documentation has been retained, a happy reversal of the practice in many collections of this kind. The student can thus see what historical research is all about. All but one of the translations from the French read very well.  Indeed, the scholar will want to own this work as much as the student.

A gem by Marc Bloch opens the collection - his study of the long struggle of the peasants of Rosny to be free of their servile bonds.  From it he can wring insights into the character of serfdom and village organization, the extent to which money had penetrated the countryside, and what factors really determined who won a court case. The lower orders reappear at several turns in these pages, for instance, in E. Perroy's 'Wage Labor in France in the Later Middle Ages', which sets the stage for subsequent research, and Howard Kaminsky's fine analysis of Hussite chiliasm as a revolutionary movement..." - www. cambridge .org

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