Introduction
Preliminaries
1: Material resources and economic constraints
2: Culture and economic constraints
3: Power and economic constraints
4: Contours of development
5: Britain and Ireland in the later eleventh century
1050 - 1300
6: Merchants and their trade
7: Towns, industry and local trade
8: Rural settlement and society
9: Arable husbandry
10: Pasture husbandry
11: Lords and tenants
12: Government
13: Procedural routines and the uses of literacy
14: Stability and Crisis
15: Britain and Ireland in the early fourteenth century
1300 - 1530
16: Merchants and their trade
17: Towns, industry and local trade
18: Rural settlement and society
19: Arable husbandry
20: Pastoral husbandry
21: Landlords and tenants
22: Government
23: Procedural routines and the uses of literacy
24: Stability and Crisis
25: Britain and Ireland in the early sixteenth century
Bibliography of primary sources
Index
Richard Britnell is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Durham. He has written extensively on this period of British history.
...a superb textbook covering the economy of the British Isles from 1050 to 1530...What makes this book so valuable [...is] its comprehensiveness and sure-footed approach throughout...the book is likely to be the standard work on the topic for many years to come...a tour de force of intelligent assessment and penetrating insight. John Langdon, University of Alberta By any standard, this book is an impressive achievement ... this book is the definitive statement of our times about those more distant times. H.B. Clarke, The Ricardian This important book represents the first meaningful attempt to provide an overview of the economy and society in Britain and Ireland during the middle ages. The English Historical Review
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