Everyday life in medieval England /

"Everyday Life in Medieval England captures the day-to-day experience of people in the middle ages - the houses and settlements in which they lived, the food they ate, their getting and spending - and their social relationships. The picture that emerges is of great variety, of constant change,...

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Main Author: Dyer, Christopher, 1944-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Hambledon and London, 2000.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Tables; Preface; Introduction; 1 Power and Conflict in the Medieval English Village; 2 'The Retreat from Marginal Land': The Growth and Decline of Medieval Rural Settlements; 3 Deserted Medieval Villages in the West Midlands; 4 Dispersed Settlements in Medieval England: A Case Study of Pendock, Worcestershire; 5 Changes in Diet in the Late Middle Ages: The Case of Harvest Workers; 6 The Consumption of Freshwater Fish in Medieval England; 7 Gardens and Orchards in Medieval England; 8 English Peasant Buildings in the Later Middle Ages (1200-1500)
  • 9 Wages and Earnings in Late Medieval England: Evidence from the Enforcement of the Labour Laws10 The Social and Economic Background to the Rural Revolt of 1381; 11 The Rising of 1381 in Suffolk: Its Origins and Participants; 12 Towns and Cottages in Eleventh-Century England; 13 The Consumer and the Market in the Later Middle Ages; 14 The Hidden Trade of the Middle Ages: Evidence from the West Midlands; 15 Were there any Capitalists in Fifteenth-Century England?; Index