From Servitude to Freedom: Manumission in the Sénonais in the Thirteenth Century (Anniversary Collection) - Hardcover

"An admirably concise and integrated study. . . . This is a convincing and realistic analysis of the problem of manumission which neatly sets the issues in context."--History "From Servitude to Freedom deals with a subject of global importance to medieval society, yet in vivid detail and mindful of all the complexity of the historical scene. It is written with a clearly defined focus and with admirable economy. It will not only inform the scholar, for whom it was first written, but it will also capture the imagination of the undergraduate and general reader."--John W. Baldwin

Manumission--the freeing of serfs--was of major significance to medieval French society. William Chester Jordan studies the causes and consequences of the movement.