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Autore: | Hare John |
Titolo: | A Prospering Society [[electronic resource] ] : Wiltshire in the Later Middle Ages |
Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : University Of Hertfordshire Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina: | 010.6 |
942.3103 | |
Soggetto topico: | American literature -- Bibliography |
England -- Bibliography | |
English literature -- Bibliography | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Copyright Page; In Memoriam; Publication grant; Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Acknowledgements; General Editor's preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: The county and beyond; Chapter 2: Regions and people; Chapter 3: Landlords and estates; Chapter 4: Agriculture before the Black Death; Chapter 5: Agriculture c. 1380-c. 1440; Chapter 6: The leasing of the demesnes; Chapter 7: The demesne lessees; Chapter 8: Tenant mobility and the decline of serfdom; Chapter 9: The land market and the village economy; Chapter 10: Towns and trade; Chapter 11: The growth of the cloth industry |
Chapter 12: Growth and recession: a chronologyConclusion; Bibliography; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Based on a case study of a particular countryside and town in southern England?namely, the county of Wiltshire and the city of Salisbury?this record seeks to explore the changing nature of English society during the period from 1380 to 1520. It examines the influence of landscape and population on the agriculture of Wiltshire, the regional patterns of arable and pastoral farming, and the growing contrast between the large-scale mixed farming of the chalklands and the family farms of the claylands. Discussing how economic growth generated problems of its own, this study is the first to fully in |
Altri titoli varianti: | Prospering Society |
A Prospering Society : Wiltshire in the Later Middle Ages | |
Prospering Society, A | |
Prospering Society, A : Wiltshire in the Later Middle Ages | |
A Prospering Society | |
Titolo autorizzato: | A Prospering Society |
ISBN: | 1-306-10205-7 |
1-907396-59-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910480239503321 |
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