In this article we analyse the root causes of the high level of resilience of one particular peasant society: the Campine area. While peasant societies have often been deemed one of the most vulnerable societies in the face of crises and disasters, because of their lack of capital, technology and power, we show that peasant communities possessed some important weapons of the weak. Thanks to strong property rights, collective action, a diverse economic portfolio and inclusive poor relief institutions the Campine peasants were able to weather both the late medieval crises, harvest failures as well as the threat of sand drifts between the fourteenth and nineteenth century.

在本文中，我们分析了一个特定农民社会高水平复原力的根本原因：坎平地区。虽然农民社会经常被认为是面对危机和灾难时最脆弱的社会之一，但由于缺乏资金、技术和权力，我们表明农民社区拥有一些弱者的重要武器。由于强大的产权、集体行动、多样化的经济组合和包容性的贫困救济机构，坎平农民能够经受住中世纪晚期的危机、收成歉收以及 14 世纪和 19 世纪之间的流沙威胁。