"Vinogradoff" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... period. This fact is ignored by historians who suppose the chief factor in the commutation movement to have been the desire of prosperous villains to rid themselves of the degrading marks of serfdom. Vinogradoff, for instance, in his preface to the monograph from which most of the foregoing illustrations have been drawn, has nothing at all to say of the reduction of rent and the poverty of the tenants ...
— The Enclosures in England - An Economic Reconstruction • Harriett Bradley |
