Includes bibliographical references.

Preface / Ferran Garcia-Oliver -- Fractures in the community: a historiographical review / Frederic Aparisi Romero & Vicent Royo Pérez -- Exploitation and differentiation: economic and social stratification in the rural Muslim communities of the kingdom of Valencia, 13th-16th centuries -- Vicent Baydal Sala & Ferran Esquilache Martí -- Communal structures, lordship and peasant agency in thirteenth and early fourteenth century medieval England: some comparative observations / Miriam Müller -- Manifestations of difference: conflicts of interest in rural Valencia during the late middle ages / Vicent Royo Pérez -- Lease holding in late medieval Flanders: towards concentration and engrossment? The estates of the St. John's hospital of Bruges / Lies Vervaet -- The notarial profession as a means of social promotion amongst rural elites in the midlands of the kingdom of Valencia during the later middle ages / Frederic Aparisi Romero -- 'Poor or rich, death makes us all equal'? Social inequality (post mortem) in rural communities north of bruges (1500-1579) / Kristof Dombrecht -- Leaders of the pack: a typology of village elites in the fifteenth and sixteenth century Campine area / Eline Van Onacker -- The common denominator: regulation of the community of users of common waste lands within the Campine area during the 16th century / Maïka De Keyzer -- Conclusions / Christopher Dyer.

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