Plague, Population and the English Economy 1348-1530
Author : John Hatcher
Publisher :
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 1977
Category :
ISBN :
British Population History
Author : Michael Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 1996-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521578844
Book Description
This book brings together in one volume the four studies on British population history already published in the series New Studies in Economic and Social History, and adds to them a new essay on British population in the twentieth century. Between them, the authors survey the trends and debates in British population history from 1348 to 1991. Research over the past twenty-five years has transformed our understanding of how population has grown and declined, of why the numbers of births, deaths, marriages and migrants have risen and fallen, and thrown much new light on the economic and social impact of these changes. The studies in this book supply introductions to these problems for readers who are not themselves demographers but who, as students, teachers, or non-specialist historians and social scientists, want to know more about what happened and what are the main topics of current debate. Full bibliographies for further study are included.
Economic Ethics in Late Medieval England, 1300–1500
Author : Jennifer Hole
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 2016-10-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319388606
Book Description
Drawing on an array of archival evidence from court records to the poems of Chaucer, this work explores how medieval thinkers understood economic activity, how their ideas were transmitted and the extent to which they were accepted. Moving beyond the impersonal operations of an economy to its ethical dimension, Hole’s socio-cultural study considers not only the ideas and beliefs of theologians and philosophers, but how these influenced assumptions and preoccupations about material concerns in late medieval English society. Beginning with late medieval English writings on economic ethics and its origins, the author illuminates a society which, although strictly hierarchical and unequal, nevertheless fostered expectations that all its members should avoid greed and excess consumption. Throughout, Hole aims to show that economic ethics had a broader application than trade and usury in late medieval England.
English Society 1580–1680
Author : Keith Wrightson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 21,83 MB
Release : 2002-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1134858248
Book Description
First Published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Land, Kinship and Life-Cycle
Author : Richard M. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521522199
Book Description
Essays on land transfer in English rural communities over the period 1250-1850.
English Society
Author : Keith Wrightson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 27,42 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813532882
Book Description
"A brilliant and persuasive synthesis of the best recent work in all fields of seventeenth century English history."--Christopher Hill "A triumphant success . . . deserves to be widely read."--H. T. Dickinson "Conceived as an intellectual whole and vibrantly alive."--John Kenyon, The Observer English Society, 1580-1680 paints a fascinating picture of society and societal change in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It discusses both the enduring characteristics of society as well as the course of social change. The book emphasizes the wide variation in experience between different social groups and local communities, and the unevenness of the process of transition, to build up an overall interpretation of continuity and change. In this edition, Keith Wrightson provides a new introduction to set the book in its context and to reflect on recent research, together with an updated guide to further reading. Keith Wrightson is a professor of history at Yale University. His many books include Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain.
Plague and Its Consequences: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 14,14 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0199809704
Book Description
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of European history and culture between the 14th and 17th centuries. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.
A Marginal Economy?
Author : Mark Bailey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 33,8 MB
Release : 1989-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521365017
Book Description
A theory of the margin has long featured in the work of medieval historians. Marginal regions are taken to be those of poor soil or geographical remoteness, where farmers experienced particular difficulties in grain production. It is argued that such regions were cultivated only when demographic pressure intensified in the thirteenth century, but that a combination of soil exhaustion and demographic decline resulted in severe economic contraction by the end of the fourteenth century. Marginal regions are seen not just as sensitive barometers of economic change but as important catalysts in that change. Despite the importance placed by historians on the general theory of the margin, this book represents the first detailed study of a 'marginal region'. It focuses upon East Anglian Breckland, whose blowing sands are among the most barren soils in lowland England. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, this study reconstructs Breckland's late medieval economy, and shows it to be more diversified and resilient than the stereotype depicted in marginal theory.
The English Woollen Industry, c.1200-c.1560
Author : John Oldland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 18,26 MB
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0429602812
Book Description
This is the first book to describe the early English woollens’ industry and its dominance of the trade in quality cloth across Europe by the mid-sixteenth century, as English trade was transformed from dependence on wool to value-added woollen cloth. It compares English and continental draperies, weighs the advantages of urban and rural production, and examines both quality and coarse cloths. Rural clothiers who made broadcloth to a consistent high quality at relatively low cost, Merchant Adventurers who enjoyed a trade monopoly with the Low Countries, and Antwerp’s artisans who finished cloth to customers’ needs all eventually combined to make English woollens unbeatable on the continent.
The Black Death, 1346-1353
Author : Ole Jørgen Benedictow
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,81 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851159430
Book Description
"Benedictow's findings relating to the mortality caused by the Black Death are based on the study and synthesis of all available demographic studies. Published over the past forty years, most of them in widely dispersed local journals and local histories, this cumulative evidence, astounding in its implications, has gone largely unnoticed. This book makes it indisputably clear that the true mortality rate was far higher than has been previously thought."--BOOK JACKET.
