Overview

English rural society underwent fundamental changes between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries with urbanization, commercialization and industrialization producing new challenges and opportunities for inhabitants of rural communities. However, our understanding of this period has been shaped by the compartmentalization of history into medieval and early-modern specialisms and by the debates surrounding the transition from feudalism to capitalism and landlord-tenant relations. Inspired by the classic works of Tawney and Postan, this collection of essays examines their relevance to historians today, distinguishing between their contrasting approaches to the pre-industrial economy and exploring the development of agriculture and rural industry; changes in land and property rights; and competition over resources in the English countryside.

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Author:   J. P. Bowen ,  A. T. Brown
Publisher:   University of Hertfordshire Press
Imprint:   University of Hertfordshire Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9781909291447

ISBN 10:   1909291447
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   28 February 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Tawney and Postan: Two Pathways to Understanding the Pre-Industrial Economy by Christopher Dyer2. Rural Industry and the Peasant Agrarian Economy: A Study of the Iron Industry in Medieval England by Alexandra Sapoznik3. English Agrarian Structures in a European Context, 1300-1925 by John Broad4. Farming the Kentish Marshlands: Continuity and Change in the late Middle Ages by Sheila Sweetinburgh5. 'The Struggle for the Commons': Commons, Custom and Cottages in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by James P. Bowen6. The Economics of Shipwreck in Late-Medieval Suffolk by Tom Johnson7. Custom and Competition for Woodland Resources in Early-Modern High and Low Furness, Lancashire by William D. Shannon8. Custom, Common Right and Commercialisation in the Forest of Dean, c.1605-1640 by Simon Sandall9. A Money Economy? Provisioning Durham Cathedral across the Dissolution, 1350-1600 by A. T. Brown10. Elizabethan Entrepreneurs: Three Clothiers of the Frome valley, 1550-1600 by John Gaisford11. 'The Fellowship of the Town': Constituting the Commonality of an English Town, Cirencester, c.1200-1800 by David RollisonAfterword by Andy Wood

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James P. Bowen is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Liverpool. A.T. Brown is an Addison Wheeler Fellow at Durham University.

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