Marxist historians like Eric Hobsbawm, Chris Wickham, Irfan Habib, and Witold Kula have offered large-scale narratives and interpretations of phenomena like the structure of medieval societies and ...

It became warmer when they were there. A person's window was only made of glass if he or she was wealthy. Peasants in feudal societies were usually either agricultural laborers or farmers with limited ...

Medieval times, according to contemporary chronicles, appear to be dominated by knights on horseback living in castles with moats and drawbridges. Even personal quests took on the language of ...

Most people in medieval society lived in villages, there were few large towns. The majority of people were peasants, who worked on the land. There were a range of jobs and trades in towns and ...

The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression ...

Over the following 300 years scores of towns were founded: Bala, established in 1309, was the last fling of Wales's medieval town ... central to the function of society. Native Welsh society ...