A Study On The Urbanization During The Mid-late Period Of The Middle Ages In Western Europe

Farmers worked as the main creator of traditional social productive forces, the living conditions of life, which reflects the social and economic development and material and spiritual civilization development levels. This essay tries to make some analysis about this social phenomenon——Non-agriculturization. the purpose of the thesis is to provide an angle to a deep understanding of the European social transformation and the history track. According to the development of "urbanization", the article was separated into three pieces: Urbanization drivers, the process of Urbanization and the result of the Urbanization.Mid-late of the European middle ages has so many changes in economic and social:feudal sovereignty is developing, and the city is just like a allies of the king; feudal legal system is growing, the protection toward peasant become more and more important; Especially, serfs and the peasants themselves really find a way. In the economy, the development of productivity made the farmers'income increase. At the same time, the growth of cities and commodity economy also promote the social changes.Then, the manor population, some of which were just want to make lives, and the left were seeking a more perfect chance to develop, so they decide to leave their manor. Finally the purpose of self-defense was different, which is because their life before were different. Part of them chose to leave, because the oppression is overweight, others were because they have little arable land or other reasons, and rather, it should be said escaping. But there were also another group of people, who accumulated more and more because of the development of production, but their own perspectives and the reality is unlike their economic position, and the final decision is moving into the city, this is the so-called "freedom worth much money". Of course, there are other ways to own urban resident eligible by study, the extended of the urban areas.The ending, farmers have finished the process of urbanization, and become a new impetus of city, become the facilitator of economic and social reform. But there are still some questions: under an imperfect system of the city, a great influx of the population brings pressure to the city, and the city's security and environmental problems have really puzzled a lot of people.