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THE ENGLISH MANOR vii

THE ORIGIN OF PROPERTY IN LAND 1

THE THEORY OF MAURER AS TO COMMUNITY OF LAND AMONGST THE GERMANIC NATIONS 3

THE THEORY OF M. VIOLLET AS TO COMMUNITY OF LAND AMONGST THE GREEKS 73

THE THEORY OF M. MOMMSEN AS TO COMMUNITY OF LAND AMONGST THE ROMANS 100

OF THE COMPARATIVE METHOD 106

THE THEORY OF M. DE JUBAINVILLE AS TO COMMUNITY OF LAND AMONG THE GAULS 132

CONCLUSION 149

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

THE ENGLISH MANOR.

In spite of all the labour that has been spent on the early history of England, scholars are at variance upon the most fundamental of questions: the question whether that history began with a population of independent freemen or with a population of dependent serfs. Nothing less than this is at issue in the current discussions as to the existence of the "mark" and the origin of the manor; as well as in the discussions, at first sight of less significance, as to the character of our mediaeval constitution. Neither for the government of the parish nor for the government of the nation is it possible to construct an historical theory which does not rest, consciously or unconsciously, on some view as to the position of the body of the people.

But, though we can understand how it was that historians came to discover the imposing figure of the free Teuton, it does not necessarily follow that they were mistaken. The disproof must be accomplished, if at all, by erudition equal to that by which the doctrine has been supported; and it has been the task of M. Fustel de Coulanges to assail with enormous learning and a cogent style almost every one of those propositions as to early mediaeval constitutional history, which we were beginning to deem the secure achievements of German science.


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