Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went through a series of upheavals--wars, pestilence, and rebellion. This book looks at aristocrats, peasants, townsmen, wage-earners, and paupers, and examines how they obtained and spent their incomes. Did the aristocracy practice conspicuous consumption? Did the peasants really starve? The book focuses on the varying fortunes of different social groups in the inflation of the thirteenth century, the crises of the fourteenth, and the apparent depression of the fifteenth. Dr. Dyer explains the changes in terms of the dynamics of a social and economic system subjected to stimuli and stresses.
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"To construct so well balanced and lucidly written a textbook on so large and neglected a theme can have been no easy matter, and Dyer is to be congratulated on producing what now serves as the ideal introduction to late medieval English society." R. B. Dobson, Studies in the Age of Chaucer
"...an admirable synthesis of the best work done in both social and economic history over the past generation." Canadian Journal of History
"Christopher Dyer has written a cogent textbook that provides an excellent survey of standards of living in the later middle ages." James M. Rosenheim, Albion
"...an admirable synthesis of the best work done in both social and economic history over the past generation." Canadian Journal of History
"Christopher Dyer has written a cogent textbook that provides an excellent survey of standards of living in the later middle ages." James M. Rosenheim, Albion
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An exploration of the varying fortunes of different social groups in the course of a series of upheavals--war, pestilence and rebellion--that occurred between 1200 and 1520 in medieval English society.
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This review is from: Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England c.1200-1520 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks) (Paperback)
There are two eds. of this book, and Dyer has a new survey out--so you may wish to buy the survey rather than this--but I still remember how much fun this was to read when I was reading for my orals. Some of the reviews were very critical, but I thought it was particularly good at incorporating archeological evidence to build a coherent picture of life and social change.
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To state that standards of living varied with social rank is a truism; to define the groups that can be used in our analysis presents us with a hard task. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aristocratic incomes, peasant buildings, bad harvest years, individual manors, peasant living standards, aristocratic consumption, higher aristocracy, manorial accounts, northern monastery, customary tenants, price scissors, food traders, lesser aristocracy, medieval agriculture, entry fines, hundred rolls, free tenants, medieval economy, building craftsmen, court rolls, landed income, high grain prices Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Black Death, East Anglia, Thorold Rogers, Westminster Abbey, Camden Soc, King's Lynn, Bishop's Cleeve, Early English Text Soc, Alice de Bryene, Record Commission, Beaulieu Abbey, Canterbury Cathedral Priory, New York, Sir Hugh Luttrell, Worcestershire Historical Soc, John Catesby, Ramsey Abbey, Somerset Record Soc, Thomas de Berkeley, University of Birmingham, Vale Royal, Bodleian Library, Durham Priory, Gloucester Abbey, Oxfordshire Record Soc New!
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To state that standards of living varied with social rank is a truism; to define the groups that can be used in our analysis presents us with a hard task. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aristocratic incomes, peasant buildings, bad harvest years, individual manors, peasant living standards, aristocratic consumption, higher aristocracy, manorial accounts, northern monastery, customary tenants, price scissors, food traders, lesser aristocracy, medieval agriculture, entry fines, hundred rolls, free tenants, medieval economy, building craftsmen, court rolls, landed income, high grain prices Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Black Death, East Anglia, Thorold Rogers, Westminster Abbey, Camden Soc, King's Lynn, Bishop's Cleeve, Early English Text Soc, Alice de Bryene, Record Commission, Beaulieu Abbey, Canterbury Cathedral Priory, New York, Sir Hugh Luttrell, Worcestershire Historical Soc, John Catesby, Ramsey Abbey, Somerset Record Soc, Thomas de Berkeley, University of Birmingham, Vale Royal, Bodleian Library, Durham Priory, Gloucester Abbey, Oxfordshire Record Soc New!
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- Medieval England: Rural Society and Economic Change 1086 Pb (Social & Economic History of England) by E Miller on 6 pages
- Medieval England: A Social History and Archaeology from the Conquest to 1600 AD by Professor C Platt in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Canterbury Cathedral Priory (Study in Economic History) by R. A. L. Smith on page 36, and Back Matter
- Medieval Southwark by Martha Carlin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- East Anglia: English Heritage (England's Landscape) by Tom Williamson on page 123, and page 125
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- The Gothic Enterprise: A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral by Robert A. Scott in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Changing Values in Medieval Scotland: A Study of Prices, Money, and Weights and Measures by Elizabeth Gemmill on page 21, and Back Matter
- Individuals, Families, and Communities in Europe, 1200-1800: The Urban Foundations of Western Society (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time) by Katherine A. Lynch on page 39, and Back Matter
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