The history of the European peasantry, which has undergone many upheavals over the centuries: from its rise in the Middle Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire, through the oppression of the nobility and the Church, to the struggles for freedom and modernization in the present era.

• Catherine Ringer
• Miklós Attila Szőcs Boruss
• Massimo Montanari
• Chris Wickham
• Edith Peytremann
• Sheilagh Ogilvie
• Jean-Pierre Devroey
• Morgan Ody