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Introduction Miriam Müller Part 1: Social Relationships, Communities and Hierarchies 1. Rural Elites in Medieval Valencia, Spain Frederic Aparisi 2. Monastic Lordship and Rural Society in the Middle Pesa Valley (Tuscany) from the Late Twelfth to the Late Thirteenth Century Tommaso Casini 3. Lordship and Peasant Status in Lusignan and Venetian Cyprus Aysu Dincer 4. From vicinia to communitas. The evolution of village organization and government in the 11th-15th century Poland Piotr Guzowski 5. Creative Writing: How to create a rural community by writing about it – in the German South-West Mathias Moosbrugger 6. The rural parish in England Robert Swanson Part 2: Dealing with Conflicts and Adversity 7. The Monks and the Masses at Saint-Leu d’Esserent: Rural Politics in Northern France before the Jacquerie Justine Firnhaber-Baker 8. Access versus Influence: Peasants in court in the late Medieval Low Countries Maika de Keyzer 9. Famine in Medieval England Phillipp R. Schofield 10. Climate, Pathogens and Mammals: England in the Age of Emerging Diseases, c. 1279-1362 Philip Slavin Part 3: Work and Making a Living 11. Peasant Farmers and their Farmworkers in Later Medieval England Jean Birrell 12. Rural households and the market for commodities in the later middle ages Chris Briggs