THERE are few greater authorities, today, on the subject of mediaeval life than Dr. Coulton who, in this, his second talk in the series, will speak on the subject of the Mediaeval Village, considered as a unit of civil society. Under Feudalism, as Dr. Coulton shows, the comparatively democratic character of the Teutonic village was all but destroyed, since the freeman frequently became a serf, finding therein protection, but loss of liberty. The peasant's life-his two-and three-field system of tillage, his common rights. his rents to the manor, his service in the form of labour, and his duties as village official in the Manor Court—will all be illustrated in this week's talk.