Agriculture and rural society after the Black Death [[electronic resource] ] : common themes and regional variations / / edited by Ben Dodds and Richard Britnell

• Pubblicazione: Hatfield, : University of Hertfordshire Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.7209409023
• Soggetto topico: Agriculture - Europe - History - To 1500; Agriculture - Europe - Regional disparities; Agriculture - Great Britain - History - To 1500; Peasants - Europe - Social conditions
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Rural conditions; Great Britain Rural conditions; Europe Social conditions To 1492
• Altri autori: DoddsBen BritnellR. H
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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, 1384-14548.2 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, 1350-141011.6 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), 1350-14292.6 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
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a new collection of essays on agriculture and rural society in the late Middle Ages, in particular following the Black Death. It combines a broad perspective on agrarian issues such as depopulation and social conflict with illustrative material from detailed local and regional research to show how general problems were worked out in specific contexts. The contributors explore the wide regional variety across Europe (which was influenced by climatic differences and broad spatial variables such as levels of urbanisation and commercial infrastructure), yet they argue that a European history is nevertheless possible. They also supply detailed studies from regional British contexts relating to, amongst other issues, the use of the land, the movement of prices, the distribution of property, the organisation of trade and the cohesion of village society. There is new research on several aspects of regional development in medieval England and other European countries: Robert Swanson, a leading authority on the history of the late medieval Church, discusses how the collection of tithes to maintain local clergy in the medieval Church contributed to the commercialisation of trade in grain and other agricultural products; Peter Larson shows how villagers became increasingly prone to violence in the generations following the Black Death, in response to the social upheavals caused by the epidemic. If there is a single overarching idea that gives the collection coherence, it is that trends in agriculture during the late Middle Ages were more varied than has usually been supposed. Taken as a whole, the book supplies a valuable introduction to problems and research methods together with original contributions to knowledge based on current research.
• Titolo autorizzato: Agriculture and rural society after the Black Death
• ISBN: 1-306-09652-9; 1-905313-67-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777939903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in regional and local history ; ; v. 6.