刍议都铎时代的圈地运动

都铎王朝统治时期，英国社会处于从封建制度向资本主义制度过渡的历史阶段，即资本原始积累时期。作为原始积累的方式之一，圈地运动在都铎时代第一次达到高潮．它是14-15世纪英国社会大变动的产物。都铎时代的圈地狂潮具有直接暴力的典型特征，它包括掠夺公共土地、侵占农民份地、没收教会土地等等。圈地运动使耕地减少、牧场增加，这只是一种表面现象，由圈地引起的新旧生产关系的消长，反映了英国农业社会中资本主义成长的实质。就都铎时代圈地运动对封建生产关系的扫荡作用而言，它的历史意义决不在17世纪中叶的政治革命之下。

On the Enclosure under Tudor England

Under the Tudors the English society was in a period of transition from the feudalism to the capitalism. The Enclosure Movement was the outcome of the social development in England in the 14-15 century, and it was one of the forms of Capital Primitive Accumulation. It had many characteristics such as plundering public fields, seizing farmers' fields, and robbing churches' fields. Its essence reflected a change of increase of the new relations of production and a decline of the old ones in agriculture in England in the 16 century.