The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 3, 1348-1500Edward Miller, H. P. R. Finberg, Joan Thirsk The third volume of The Agrarian History of England and Wales, dealing with the last century and a half of the middle ages, follows the general pattern of the second volume which described the generations of agricultural expansion between the time of Domesday and of the Black Death. The third volume, however, concerns itself with the new demographic and economic circumstances created in large measure by endemic plague, and how these circumstances influenced patterns of settlement in the countryside, farming practices and the structure of rural society, both at the level of landlords and in the villages. An attempt is made to distinguish the special influence of general circumstances in the different regions of late medieval England and Wales. The volume includes a study of the marketing of agricultural produce in the period 1200-1500, detailed analyses of the movements of prices and wages in the countryside, a review of peasant rebellions and discontent centered on the revolts of 1381, and a chapter devoted to rural building in England and Wales. |
Contents
A People | 1 |
B People and Land | 8 |
Limiting Influences | 20 |
G The Home Counties | 106 |
H Kent and Sussex | 119 |
The Southern Counties | 136 |
J Devon and Cornwall | 152 |
CHAPTER 3 | 163 |
Livestock prices | 455 |
E Some deadstock prices | 461 |
F Wages | 467 |
G The Statutes of Labourers | 483 |
H The standard of living | 490 |
CHAPTER 6 | 526 |
B Tenure and inheritance | 547 |
Landed revenues | 568 |
CHAPTER 2 | 173 |
Farming Practice and Techniques | 175 |
B Yorkshire and Lancashire | 182 |
Eastern England | 194 |
34 | 196 |
The East Midlands | 210 |
E The West Midlands | 222 |
F Wales and the Marches | 238 |
53 | 246 |
G The Home Counties | 254 |
H Kent and Sussex | 268 |
The Southern Counties | 285 |
J Devon and Cornwall | 303 |
Marketing the Produce of the Countryside | 324 |
Marketing grain | 358 |
Marketing livestock | 377 |
E Marketing wool cheese and hides | 395 |
F Marketing the produce of woodland and pasture | 408 |
G Bargaining facilities and restrictions | 420 |
CHAPTER 5 | 431 |
Grain prices | 443 |
ᎠThe fortunes of landlords | 577 |
CHAPTER 7 | 587 |
B Yorkshire and Lancashire | 596 |
Eastern England | 611 |
The East Midlands | 624 |
E The West Midlands | 636 |
F Wales and the Marches | 648 |
CHAPTER 8 | 723 |
Peasant Rebellion and Peasant Discontents | 744 |
Employers labourers and the labour laws after the Black | 753 |
Lords serfs and serfdom | 760 |
I | 797 |
K Conclusion | 813 |
CHAPTER 9 | 820 |
C | 830 |
D | 847 |
Granges | 905 |
G Conclusion | 918 |
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