Social regression

Or sociological regression. Non-progress; Counter-progress; Anti-progress; A step back; Losse. The collection's title (which, as the editors make clear, refers to the transition from feudalism to capitalism) is somewhat misleading, as it is the general opinion of the contributors that no transition occurred during these centuries, whatever the region's importance for contemporary developments in the west. Rather, the extension of market opportunities led to the 'second serfdom' - the development of larger desmesne farms 'based on the unpaid labour of peasants who lost their late medieval liberties and became serfs' (Topolski, 128).--- review of Horton's book