https://earlymoderneurope.hist.sites.carleton.edu/files/original/ad2dc7f3a0307297d1e242a542df7673.jpeg 68b7091a682d9b718126c14a40b99f0a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Peasants Mowing Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Pietro de Crescenzi, translation by Jean Corbechon Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Zach Irvin Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. 1478-1480 Description An account of the resource Written in 1302, Pietro de Crescenzi’s famous “Ruralia Commodia” offers a unique perspective on rural peasant life in the early modern era. This particular illustration depicting two peasant men mowing hay was included in the book’s first publication and was widely distributed throughout Europe as a sort of gardening and horticulture manual. In fact, Henry VIII was said to have a copy of this very book in his personal library (Carley, 292). The development of merchant capitalism brought sweeping changes to rural life across Europe. With it came a fundamental reorganization of capital distribution and ownership structures. As Merry Wiesner-Hanks put it, “any discussion of the European economy must begin in the countryside” (Wiesner-Hanks, 206). And, indeed, the end of serfdom in rural Europe fundamentally transformed ideas of private property and ownership and marked the beginning of capitalism as we know it. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Pietro de Crescenzi. Peasants Mowing, 1478-1480, The British Library. <a href="https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200397/BibliographicResource_3000126283275.html?q=peasants+mowing+">https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200397/BibliographicResource_3000126283275.html?q=peasants+mowing+</a> <br /><br />Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789. Cambridge University Press, 2006. <br /><br />Carley, James P. "The Libraries of King Henry VIII : An Update of the Westminster Inventory of 1542." The Library 16, no. 3 (2015): 282-303. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Free Re-use