Medieval Studies Book Club: Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A Study of Three Communities

Our next session will be themed along the Medieval Graduate Conference on ‘Ordinary People, Everyday Lives: Exploring the Mundane in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages’. We will read ‘Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A Study of Three Communities’ by Susan Kilby.

Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape by Susan Kilby forms part of a new wave of scholarship on the medieval rural environment in which the focus moves beyond purely socio-economic concerns to incorporate the lived experience of peasants. Through a wide range of textual and material sources, Kilby seeks to reconstruct the physical and socio-cultural environment of three contrasting English villages between 1086 and 1348 as a basis for determining how medieval peasants perceived their natural surroundings.

All interested graduate students are warmly welcome! As always, dinner will be provided. If you would like to join, please send an email to Mo van de Wege at mv9132@princeton.edu before Friday, September 27 and indicate whether you would like a free copy of the book from Labyrinth and if you have dietary restrictions

These meetings are for graduate students only.