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Having set out the ways in which land was held, its extent, its obligations and its legal tenures, it is evident that no simple uniformity of peasant landholding existed in medieval England. In order to comprehend this diversity, it will be useful to consider the combination of factors that might have contributed to it. The range of these is, of course, very considerable: they include the landscape, patterns of settlement, regional customs and inheritance practices, and the initiatives of the peasantry themselves. Developments in these, increases or diminutions in the importance of each, were of signal importance in the lives of the peasantry and, above all here, the ways in which they held and worked their land.
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Schofield, P.R. (2003). Determinants of Peasant Landholding. In: Peasant and Community in Medieval England, 1200–1500. Medieval Culture and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230802711_3
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