Agriculture and Rural Society After the Black Death
University of Hertfordshire Press (Verlag)
978-1-902806-79-2 (ISBN)
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This is a new collection of essays on agriculture and rural society in the late Middle Ages, in particular following the Black Death. It combines a broad perspective on agrarian issues such as depopulation and social conflict with illustrative material from detailed local and regional research to show how general problems were worked out in specific contexts. The contributors explore the wide regional variety across Europe (which was influenced by climatic differences and broad spatial variables such as levels of urbanization and commercial infrastructure), yet they argue that a European history is nevertheless possible. They also supply detailed studies from regional British contexts relating to, amongst other issues, the use of the land, the movement of prices, the distribution of property, the organization of trade and the cohesion of village society.There is new research on several aspects of regional development in medieval England and other European countries: Robert Swanson, a leading authority on the history of the late medieval Church, discusses how the collection of tithes to maintain local clergy in the medieval Church contributed to the commercialization of trade in grain and other agricultural products; Peter Larson shows how villagers became increasingly prone to violence in the generations following the Black Death, in response to the social upheavals caused by the epidemic.
If there is a single overarching idea that gives the collection coherence, it is that trends in agriculture during the late Middle Ages were more varied than has usually been supposed. Taken as a whole, the book supplies a valuable introduction to problems and research methods together with original contributions to knowledge based on current research.
Ben Dodds is a lecturer in the Department of History in Durham, specializing in late-medieval economic and social history. He has recently published Peasants and Production in the Medieval North-East: the Evidence from Tithes, 1270-1536 (Boydell Press, 2007). Richard Britnell taught in the University of Durham from 1966 until 2003. He is a specialist in the economic and social history of the medieval period, and is the author of several monographs and textbooks, including The Commercialization of English Society, 1000-1500 (Manchester University Press, 1996) and Britain and Ireland, 1050-1530: Economy and Society (OUP, 2004). He was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005.
1 Markets and incentives: common themes and regional variationsRichard Britnell2 English agricultural output and prices, 1350-1450: national trends and regional divergencesRichard Britnell3 Regional price differentials and local economies in north-east England, c. 1350-c.1520Phillipp Schofield4 Town and region: the corn market in Aberdeen, c. 1398-c. 1468Elizabeth Gemmill5 Output and productivity: common themes and regional VariationsBen Dodds6 A universal levy: tithes and economic agencyRobert N. Swanson7 Patterns of decline: arable production in England, and Castile 1370-1450Ben Dodds8 Lord, tenant and the market: some tithe evidence from the Wessex regionJohn Hare9 Land and lordship: common themes and regional variationsRichard Britnell10 Changing land use in a moorland region: Spennymoor in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuriesSimon J. Harris11 Accumulation and polarisation in two bailiwicks of the Winchester bishopric estates, 1350-1410: regional similarities and contrastsJohn Mullan12 Rural transformation in northern England: village communities of Durham, 1340-1400Peter L. Larson13 Common themes and regional variationsRichard Britnell and Ben Dodds
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.4.2009 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Regional and Local History ; v. 6 |
| Verlagsort | Hatfield |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 244 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-902806-79-4 / 1902806794 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-902806-79-2 / 9781902806792 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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