Abstract
List of illustrations Acknowledgements Currencies, weights and measures employed in the text Introduction: grand narratives, ordinary Prussians 1. After the deluge: a noble lordship's sixteenth-century ascent and seventeenth-century crisis 2. The Prussianization of the countryside? Noble lordship under early absolutism, 1648-1728 3. Village identities in social practice and law 4. Daily bread: village farm incomes, living standards and lifespans 5. The Kleists' good fortune: family strategies and estate management in an eighteenth-century noble lineage 6. Noble lordship's servitors and clients: estate managers, artisans, clergymen, domestic servants 7. Farm servants, young and old: landless labourers in the villages and at the manor 8. Policing crime and the moral order, 1700-1760: seigneurial court, village mayors, church, state and army 9. Policing seigneurial rent: the Kleists' battle with their subjects' insubordination and the villagers' appeals to royal justice, 1727-1806 10. Seigneurial bond severed: from subject farmers to freeholders, from compulsory estate labourers to free, 1806-1840 Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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