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A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, c. 1295-1344 (1st Edition) by Judith M. Bennett, Chapel Hill Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-07-290331-7 / 0072903317 ISBN-13: 978-0-07-290331-7 / 9780072903317 In Cecilia's day, there were many serfs in Western Europe and few to the east; a hundred years later, as serfdom was declining in the West, it was being successfully imposed on the formerly free peasants of Eastern Europe. These differences of place and time distinguish Cecilia's life as a peasan |