Making a Living in the Middle Ages : The People of Britain 850-1520 / Christopher Dyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dyer, Christopher, Author.

Series:

New economic history of Britain.

The New Economic History of Britain Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Great Britain--History--To 1500.

Cities and towns.

Social classes--Great Britain--History--To 1500.

Social classes.

Social change--Great Britain--History--To 1500.

Social change.

Working class--Great Britain--History--To 1500.

Working class.

Industries--Great Britain--History--To 1500.

Industries.

Middle Ages.

Great Britain--Economic conditions.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--Medieval period, 1066-1485.

Great Britain--Population--History--To 1500.

England--Economic conditions--1066-1485.

England.

England--Social conditions--1066-1485.

Scotland--Economic conditions.

Scotland.

Wales--Economic conditions.

Wales.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 403 p. ) ill., maps ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2003]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dramatic social and economic change during the middle ages altered the lives of the people of Britain in far-reaching ways, from the structure of their families to the ways they made their livings. In this masterly book, preeminent medieval historian Christopher Dyer presents a fresh view of the British economy from the ninth to the sixteenth century and a vivid new account of medieval life. He begins his volume with the formation of towns and villages in the ninth and tenth centuries and ends with the inflation, population rise, and colonial expansion of the sixteenth century.This is a book about ideas and attitudes as well as the material world, and Dyer shows how people regarded the economy and responded to economic change. He examines the growth of towns, the clearing of lands, the Great Famine, the Black Death, and the upheavals of the fifteenth century through the eyes of those who experienced them. He also explores the dilemmas and decisions of those who were making a living in a changing world-from peasants, artisans, and wage earners to barons and monks. Drawing on archaeological and landscape evidence along with more conventional archives and records, the author offers here an engaging survey of British medieval economic history unrivaled in breadth and clarity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Introduction: Approaching the economic history of medieval Britain

Chapter One: Living on the land, c.850-c.1050

Chapter Two: Crisis and new directions, c.850-c.1050

Chapter Three: Conquest c.1050-c.1100

Chapter Four: Lords, c.1100-c.1315

Chapter Five: Peasants, c.1100-c.1315

Chapter Six: Towns and commerce, c.1100-c.1315

Chapter Seven: Crisis, c.1290-c.1350

Chapter Eight: The Black Death and its aftermath, c.1348-c.1520

Chapter Nine: Towns, trade and industry, c.1350-c.1520

Chapter Ten: The countryside, c.1350-c.1520

Conclusion

Further reading

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-16707-5

OCLC:

1024028682