Includes ten essays, which contribute to the re-assessment of how the medieval 'backwardness' of English agriculture was transformed into modern 'progress'.
Part of "Variorum" series, this book presents a collection of essays that range from a case-study of a single crowded Norfolk manor to a consideration of the broad and, towards the end of the Middle Ages, widening contrasts that persisted between North and South.
The later Middle Ages was an overwhelmingly rural world, with probably three out of four households reliant upon farming for a living. Yet... Læs mere