How were manorial lords in the twelfth and thirteenth century able
to appropriate peasant labour? And what does this reveal about the
changing attitudes and values of medieval England? Considering
these questions from the perspective of the 'moral economy', the
web of shared values within a society, Rosamond Faith offers a
penetrating portrait of a changing world. Anglo-Saxon lords were
powerful in many ways but their power did not stem directly from
their ownership of land. The values of early medieval England -
principally those of rank, reciprocity and worth - were shared
across society. The Norman Conquest brought in new attitudes both
to land and to the relationship between lords and peasants, and the
Domesday Book conveyed the novel concept of 'tenure'. The new
'feudal thinking' permeated all relationships concerned with land:
peasant farmers were now manorial tenants, owing labour and rent.
Many people looked back to better days.
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