Module 4—Stepping into a New Order
摘要
From this chapter onwards, we will enter into the stated period of this book—from 1350 to 1650—and succeeding chapters will study the main features of Europe in its passage to the ‘modern’. The feudal mode of production is seen to have defined the period. Marxist scholars once saw the harvest cycle as the original cycle of feudalism; if the cycle snapped at any one point, the consequences could be momentous.