DANIEL DE LEON.

New York, January 1, 1904.

INDEX

[Translator's Preface][iii]
[Part I. The Feudal Castle.]
[Chapter 1.]The Serfs of Plouernel [3]
[Chapter 2.]Fergan the Quarryman[13]
[Chapter 3.]At the Cross-road[22]
[Chapter 4.]The Manor of Plouernel[32]
[Chapter 5.]Azenor the Pale[36]
[Chapter 6.]Feudal Justice[44]
[Chapter 7.]Abbot and Monk[55]
[Chapter 8.]The Chamber of Torture[66]
[Chapter 9.]The Rescue[82]
[Chapter 10.]Cuckoo Peter[90]
[Part II. The Crusade.]
[Chapter 1.]The Syrian Desert[109]
[Chapter 2.]Serf and Seigneur[118]
[Chapter 3.]The Emir's Palace[132]
[Chapter 4.]Orgies of the Crusaders[141]
[Chapter 5.]The King of the Vagabonds[151]
[Chapter 6.]The Market Place of Marhala[156]
[Chapter 7.]The Fall of Jerusalem[169]
[Part III. The Commune of Laon.]
[Chapter 1.]The Rise of the Communes[185]
[Chapter 2.]The Charter of Laon[189]
[Chapter 3.]Episcopals and Communiers[206]
[Chapter 4.]The Ecclesiastical Seigniory of Gaudry [214]
[Chapter 5.]Bourgeois and Ecclesiastical Seigneur[227]
[Chapter 6.]The Gathering Storm[239]
[Chapter 7.]"To Arms, Communiers!"[247]
[Chapter 8.]Retribution[258]
[Chapter 9.]Resting on Their Arms[267]
[Epilogue][278]

PART I.
THE FEUDAL CASTLE.

CHAPTER I.
THE SERFS OF PLOUERNEL.

The day touched its close. The autumn sun cast its last rays upon one of the villages of the seigniory of Plouernel. A large number of partly demolished houses bore testimony to having been recently set on fire during one of the wars, frequent during the eleventh century, between the feudal lords of France. The walls of the huts of the village, built in pisé, or of stones held together with clayish earth, were cracked or blackened by the flames. There were still in sight, half burnt out, the rafters of the roofings, replaced by a few poles wrapped in bundles of furze or reed-grass.