Download or read book Peasant Economic Development Within the English Manorial System written by James Ambrose Raftis and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging a hundred-year tradition that English peasants were serfs at the disposal of their lord, J.A. Raftis argues that tenants were in considerable control of the manorial regime and were able to take advantage of what most scholars have considered to be exploitive and negative aspects of the medieval agricultural economy.