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)

CHAPTER VIII.

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CONNEXION BETWEEN THE ROMAN LAND SYSTEM AND THE LATER MANORIAL SYSTEM.

1. Importance of the Continental evidence 252

2. The connexion between the Saxon 'ham,' the German 'heim,' and the Frankish 'villa' 253

3. The Roman 'villa,' its easy transition into the later manor, and its tendency to become the predominant type of estate 263

4. The smaller tenants on the 'Ager Publicus' in Roman provinces--The veterans 272

5. The smaller tenants on the 'Ager Publicus' (_continued_)--the 'læti' 280

6. The 'tributum' of the later Empire 289

7. The 'sordida munera' of the later Empire 295

8. The tendency towards a manorial management of the 'Ager Publicus,' or Imperial domain 300

9. The succession to semi-servile holdings, and methods of cultivation 308

10. The transition from the Roman to the later manorial system 316