1. Terminology and constructions
1.1. Exonyms and endonyms
Like Bauer for Germany and paysan for France, the scholarly descriptive term peasant denotes a group of agricultural producers with specific economic and social characteristics that set them apart from self-sufficient land and estate owners as well as from from domain tenants and manorial tenants, but also from unmarried villagers without land or a house (Laborer, unlanded, Cotta…