1: Introduction: Living in 1495-1520
2: Family and household: John Heritage and his Contemporaries
3: John Heritage's Country
4: John Heritage's Wool Business
5: Pasture, Sheep, Wool, and People
6: Beyond the Account Book: Changing the Countryside
7: Individuals and Communities
8: Conclusion
Appendix 1: Sample pages from the account book
Appendix 2: Deserted village sites
Bibliography
Index
Christopher Dyer has held posts at the Universities of Edinburgh,
Birmingham, and Leicester. He has written five books, and has been
joint author or editor of six others. He has published numerous
articles and essays in many journals and edited volumes. His
central interest is in the economic and social history of medieval
England, and in pursuit of a broader understanding of the period
has worked on landscape history and archaeology. He is CBE, a
Fellow of the
British Academy, and has been President of the Society for Medieval
Archaeology, The British Agricultural History Society, the Medieval
Settlement Research Group, the Bristol and Gloucestershire
Archaeological Society, and the Worcestershire Historical Society.
He has been editor of the journals Midland History and the Economic
History Review.
Reviewed in brief in Rural History Today July 2012
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