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Agriculture and Rural Society after the Black Death : Common Themes and Regional Variations.
Title:
Agriculture and Rural Society after the Black Death : Common Themes and Regional Variations.
Author:
Britnell, Richard.
ISBN:
9781905313679
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (282 pages)
Series:
Studies in Regional and Local History ; v.6

Studies in Regional and Local History
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 3.1a Wheat prices compared, 1330-1500 (Durham) -- 3.1b Wheat prices compared, 1330--1500 (Rogers) -- 3.1c Wheat prices compared, 1330-1500 (Farmer) -- 3.2 Wheat price differentials, 1350-1500 -- 7.1 Tithe receipts from between Tyne and Tees deflated to indicate 116 arable output -- 7.2a Estimated output in Shincliffe -- 7.2b Estimated output in Old Durham -- 7.2c Estimated output in 'Wastes' -- 7.2d Estimated output in Newton -- 7.3 Percentage of San Clodio do Ribeiro (Galicia) documents mentioning newly cultivated or populated land -- 8.1 Downton grain tithe receipts, 1384-1454 -- 8.2 Alton Priors grain tithe receipts, 1303-1316 -- 10.1 Settlements, town lands and moorland farms of the townships around Spennymoor, showing the extent of the moor in the later Middle Ages -- 11.1 Number of land transactions on the Taunton manors, 1350-1410 -- 11.2 Number of land transactions in the East Meon bailiwick, 1350-1410 -- 11.3 Percentage of augmented virgates on the Taunton manors, 1350-1410 -- 11.4 Percentage of augmented half virgates on the Taunton manors, 1350-1410 -- 11.5 Percentage of augmented quarter virgates on the Taunton manors, 1350-1410 -- 11.6 Percentage of augmented virgates in the East Meon bailiwick, 189 1350-1410 -- 11.7 Percentage of augmented half virgates in the East Meon bailiwick, 1350-1410 -- 11.8 Transfer of cottages and quarter virgates (ferlings) as a percentage of total transfers: Taunton bailiwick -- List of Tables -- 2.1 Price movements (five year averages), 1350-79 -- 2.2 Price movements (five year averages), 1370-1414 -- 2.3 Price movements (five year averages), 1405-39 -- 2.4 Price movements (five year averages), 1430-54 -- 2.5 Indices of sown acreages and total livestock units at Wisbech Barton (Cambridgeshire) (five year averages), 1350-1429.

2.6 Index of numbers of ewes and wethers at Crawley (Hampshire) (five year averages), 1350-1449 -- 2.7 Numbers of sheep and dairy cattle at Wisbech Barton (Cambridgeshire) (five year averages), 1350-1429 -- 2.8 Population index for Great Waltham and High Easter (Essex) (five year averages), 1350-1454 -- 3.1 Harvest classifications compared (Durham wheat prices with national price series) -- 3.2a Frequency of runs of low price years, 1350-1500 (wheat) -- 3.2b Frequency of runs of high price years, 1350-1500 (wheat) -- 3.3 Decennial correlations of regional wheat prices with a national series (Thorold Rogers) -- 3.4 Durham Priory: decennial correlations of wheat prices with barley and oats, 1330-1500 -- 3.5 Decennial correlations of wheat and rye prices, 1460-1500 -- 4.1 Assized prices of wheat and malt in Aberdeen, 1398-1462 -- 7.1 Arable production in the Cambrésis (after Neveux) -- 8.1 Parish tithes and demesne crops of five manors, 1270-1338 -- 8.2 Parish tithes and demesne crops, 1350-1450 -- 8.3 Tithe production at Meon Church, 1348-1436 -- 9.1 The distribution of land in the territory of Chieri (Piedmont) in 1327 and 1437 -- 10.1 Arable acres attached to two manors and nine townships around Spennymoor, 1340-1 -- 10.2 Arable acres attached to two manors and nine townships around Spennymoor, 1396-7 -- 10.3 Arable attached to five townships (excluding land 'in Spennymoor'), 1340-1 and 1396-7 -- 11.1 The largest accumulated holdings in the Taunton bailiwick, 1350-1410 -- 11.2 The largest accumulated holdings in the East Meon bailiwick, 1350-1410 -- 11.3 Standard holdings with engrossments in the Taunton bailiwick, 1350-1410185 -- 11.4 Standard holdings with engrossments in the East Meon bailiwick, 1350-1410 -- 11.5 Transfer of augmented virgates inside and outside the family in Taunton bailiwick.

11.6 Transfer of augmented half virgates inside and outside the family in Taunton bailiwick -- General Editor's preface -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Markets and incentives: common themes and regional variations by Richard Britnell -- Chapter 2 English agricultural output and prices, 1350-1450: national trends and regional divergences by Richard Britnell -- Chapter 3 Regional price differentials and local economies in north-east England, c. 1350-c. 1520 by Phillipp Schofield -- Chapter 4 Town and region: the corn market in Aberdeen, c. 1398-c. 1468 by Elizabeth Gemmill -- Chapter 5 Output and productivity: common themes and regional variations by Ben Dodds -- Chapter 6 A universal levy: tithes and economic agency by Robert N. Swanson -- Chapter 7 Patterns of decline: arable production in England, France and Castile, 1370-1450 by Ben Dodds -- Chapter 8 Lord, tenant and the market: some tithe evidence from the Wessex region by John Hare -- Chapter 9 Land and lordship: common themes and regional variations by Richard Britnell -- Chapter 10 Changing land use in a moorland region: Spennymoor in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries by Simon J. Harris -- Chapter 11 Accumulation and polarisation in two bailiwicks of the Winchester bishopric estates, 1350-1410: regional similarities and contrasts by John Mullan -- Chapter 12 Rural transformation in northern England: village communities of Durham, 1340-1400 by Peter L. Larson -- Chapter 13 Common themes and regional variations by Ben Dodds and Richard Britnell -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
With special emphasis on the period following the Black Death, this new collection of essays explores agriculture and rural society during the late Middle Ages. Combining a broad perspective on agrarian problems—such as depopulation and social conflict—with illustrative material from detailed local and regional research, this compilation demonstrates how these general problems were solved within specific contexts. The contributors supply detailed studies relating to the use of the land, the movement of prices, the distribution of property, the organization of trade, and the cohesion of village society, among other issues. New research on regional development in medieval England and other European countries is also discussed.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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