Peter L Larson

Rethinking the Great Transition

Community and Economic Growth in County Durham, 1349-1660

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Produktbeschreibung

This case study of two rural parishes in County Durham, England, provides an alternate view on the economic development involved in the transition from medieval to modern, partly explaining England's rise to global economic dominance in the seventeenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 135mm x 117mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780192849878
• ISBN-10: 0192849875
• Artikelnr.: 64108399

Autorenporträt

Peter L. Larson received his PhD from Rutgers in 2004 and holds MA degrees from Durham University and the Catholic University of America. He is an associate professor at the University of Central Florida and has been chair of the History Department since 2016. He is the author of Conflict and Compromise in the Late Medieval Countryside: Lords and Peasants in Durham, 1349-1400 (2006). His research centres on the social and economic history of County Durham in the late medieval and early modern periods.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Development and Capitalism
2: Villages and Parishes
3: Life, Marriage, Death, and the Household
4: The Foundation of the Agrarian Economy
5: Agrarian Development
6: Standards of Living in an Age of Transition
7: The Expanding and Evolving Economy
8: Individuals and Communities
Conclusion
Appendix A: Landholding Database
Appendix B: Baptism, Fornication, Marriage, and Funeral Databases
Appendix C: Probate Inventories