Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Peasant Status and the Meanings of Serfdom
2. Peasants, Property, and Payments
3. Peasants, Religion, and the Church
4. Peasants, New Towns, and Communes
5. Peasant Agency
Conclusion

About the Author

Michel Foucault is Professor of History and Systems of Thought at the Collège de France. Donald F. Bouchard is Associate Professor of English at McGill University.