1. See J. A. Raftis, Peasant Economic Development Within the English Manorial System, (Stroud, Gloucestershire 1997); C. Dyer, Everyday Life in Medieval England, (London 1994); S. Reynolds, Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe 900–1300, (Oxford 1984) for instance.
2. The stereotyped popular view of the Medieval period is well articulated in films such as, Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, or Excalibur, while even comedies such as the first, Blackadder, series help to add substance to this picture.
3. Z. Bauman, Modernity and Ambivalence, (Cambridge 1991), 4.
4. Ibid., 4–5. For the implication of ‘rulelessness’ see the short discussion in J. Agnew and S. Corbridge, Mastering Space: Hegemony, Territory and International Political Economy, (London 1995), 18–19.
5. For instance, see P. J. Taylor and C. Flint, Political Geography, (Harlow 2000), 8, 371; M. Crang, Cultural Geography, (London 1998), 163–164; E. W. Soja, Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory, (London 1989), 128.