Peasants into Farmers? The Transformation of Rural Economy and Society in the Low Countries (Middle Ages–19th Century) in Light of the Brenner Debate. Edited by Peter Hoppenbrouwers and Jan Luiten van Zanden. Turnhout: Brepols, 2001. Pp. 338. EU 61.97, paper.

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The volume collects the revised proceedings of a conference held in 1994 to discuss Robert Brenner's views on the “transition from feudalism to capitalism” in the Low Coun-tries c.1350–1550, a topic that was largely ignored by the original “Brenner debate” published in Past and Present between 1976 and 1982. The 1994 papers are topped and tailed by a substantial editorial introduction and by additional essays by the editors, Jan de Vries, and Brenner himself.