Project Gutenberg 2014-07-22 Public domain in the USA. 439 Seebohm, Frederic 1833 1912 Seebohm, Frederick Seebohm, F. (Frederic) The English Village Community Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition) E-text prepared by ms_e, RichardW, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) "The English Village Community" by Frederic Seebohm is a historical account written in the late 19th century. The book explores the development of English village communities in relation to manorial and tribal systems, as well as the common open-field system of husbandry. It aims to shed light on the economic history of England, focusing on the historical question of whether these communities began as free entities or under serfdom. At the start of the work, Seebohm expresses his initial intention to approach the subject from an economic perspective rather than as an antiquarian study. He acknowledges the essential role that understanding the old social order plays in comprehending modern concepts of freedom and democracy. The opening chapters delve into the characteristics of the open-field system, illustrating its structures and features through specific examples, particularly focusing on the township of Hitchin. Seebohm details how this system contributed significantly to the economic landscape of England and sets the groundwork for the inquiry into the relationships between village communities, manorial land management, and the evolution of serfdom within English history. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/46354/46354-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 68.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Village communities -- Great Britain JC Text Category: History - British Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750) Category: History - Modern (1750+) 1295126 2025-07-18T15:24:06.684300 text/html 1244368 2024-10-24T09:08:59 text/html 4834146 2025-07-18T15:24:29.221107 application/epub+zip 4841937 2025-07-18T15:24:10.517261 application/epub+zip 496122 2025-07-18T15:24:08.472296 application/epub+zip 5210099 2025-07-18T15:24:41.399118 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 5176438 2025-07-18T15:24:26.946229 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 844686 2022-09-21T05:51:36.841816 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 906877 2025-07-18T15:24:02.647282 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 886946 2024-10-24T09:08:59 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17966 2025-07-18T15:24:41.617098 application/rdf+xml 11948 2025-07-18T15:24:08.737233 image/jpeg 2334 2025-07-18T15:24:08.608216 image/jpeg 4631619 2025-07-18T15:24:06.870251 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia