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- Title
NOTES AND MEMORANDA.
- Authors
Hutchinson, Lincoln; Dunbar, Charles F.
- Abstract
The article focuses on notes and memoranda with regards to the Roman and Anglo-Saxon agrarian conditions. This suggests at once a similarity of conditions in the two cases, and the possibility, at least, that the origin of serfdom in England was the same as on the continent. It is becoming increasingly clear that over a large part of Western Europe there was no break in the continuity of social development, and that the agrarian conditions of the Middle Ages are to be traced back in the main to those of the later Roman Empire. Still, the question is not yet free from obscurity; and it chances that neither of these particular terms can be distinctly traced back to Roman times. If, however, a term be found in use after the Barbarian invasion, which can be traced back unmistakably to Roman times and Roman conditions, the argument for Roman influence in shaping later institutions will be greatly strengthened.
- Subjects
WESTERN Europe; AGRARIAN laws of Rome; AGRICULTURE; CHARTERS; SOCIAL development; ECONOMICS; ROMANS
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1893, Vol 7, Issue 2, p205
- ISSN
0033-5533
- Publication type
Article