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Land and family : trends and local variations in the peasant land market on the Winchester bishopric estates, 1263-1415 / John Mullan and Richard Britnell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mullan, John.
- Series:
- Studies in regional and local history (Hertfordshire, England) ; v. 8.
- Studies in regional and local history ; v. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land tenure--England, Southern--History--To 1500.
- Land tenure.
- Real estate business--England, Southern--History--To 1500.
- Real estate business.
- Farms, Small--England, Southern--History--To 1500.
- Farms, Small.
- Peasants--England, Southern--History--To 1500.
- Peasants.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--England, Southern--History--To 1500.
- Agriculture.
- England, Southern--Economic conditions--1066-1485.
- England, Southern.
- England, Southern--History, Local--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Hatfield : University of Hertfordshire Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- With a special emphasis on the exchange of land between medieval servile tenants?especially from the 13th century onward?this scholarly examination of the peasant land market of the Middle Ages explores the identification of peasant families with particular lands to which they had a hereditary right. Using this theme to explore village life and showing how peasants were affected by the changes over time and place, this study employs primary source material from the Winchester estates. Analyzing thousands of land exchanges and interactions from more than 50 different manors on Winchester, this
- Contents:
- Cover ; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Abbreviations; General Editor's preface; Preface; Frontispiece The estate of the bishopric of Winchester, c.1410; Chapter 1 The peasant land market and the Winchester pipe rolls by P.D.A. Harvey; Chapter 2 The bishop's estate; Chapter 3 Units of property; Chapter 4 Tenures; Chapter 5 Entry fines; Chapter 6 Families and their land; Chapter 7 Transfers within families; Chapter 8 Buyers and sellers; Chapter 9 Accumulation; Chapter 10 Conclusions; Appendix; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-905313-94-2
- OCLC:
- 609856455
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