Dutch and Flemish Colonization in Mediaeval Germany
James Westfall Thompson
The progress made in recent years economic and social history has changed both the axis orbit of historical interpretation. Political, dynastic, military history, governments, laws, institutions, ceased to interest many students these days. Aristotelian mind Western Europe America discovered new sources information subjects investigation. No one questions is more important mediaevalist than that demography. Among discoveries which modern study mediaeval profoundly organic heterogeneous nature society-the complexity its composition, variety texture. sharp cleavage once supposed have existed between three classes society, we now know, was not a hard narrow line separation, but series gradations, some them so slight their parallax, speak, yet been accurately determined.2 light cast upon condition peasantry course researches
American Journal of Sociology