Government finance and imposition of serfdom after the Black Death
研究了黑死病后西欧农奴制消失而东欧复兴的原因，发现农奴制在君主缺乏财政资源、依赖贵族融资的地区被推行，贵族借此维护自身经济政治地位。
Abstract After the Black Death, serfdom disappeared in Western Europe while making a resurgence in Eastern Europe. What explains this difference? I argue that serfdom was against the interests of the sovereign and was only imposed when the nobility, who needed serfdom to maintain their economic and political standing, had leverage to impose their will. The nobility gained this power through financing the state. Using data from the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, I show that serfdom was imposed and strengthened in areas where sovereigns had few other resources to finance the state.