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AT THE END of the twentieth century, postclassical Europe basked in the warm glow cast by a revisionist historiography that emphasized the early Middle Ages' many accomplishments. This was quite an achievement for a period often disparaged as the Dark Ages. But in the decades after the second World War, specialists delved deeper into the surviving documents, including the non-narrative ones earlier historians neglected, until their researches had illuminated what began to look like a golden age of European peasantries, when landlords proved less efficient at extracting surplus than they had ...

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