Christopher Dyer (University of Leicester)

Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages

Social Change in England C.1200 1520

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went through a series of upheavals: this was an age of war, pestilence and rebellion. This book explores the realities of life of the people who lived through those stirring times. This revised edition (1998) includes a substantial new concluding chapter and an updated bibliography.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9780521272155
• ISBN-10: 0521272157
• Artikelnr.: 21040359

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Weights, measures and places
Introduction
1. Late medieval society
2. Aristocratic incomes
3. The aristocracy as consumers
4. Aristocratic expenditure: making ends meet
5. Peasant living standards: modelling the peasant economy
6. Peasants as consumers
7. Urban standard of living
8. The wage-earners
9. Poverty and charity
10. The weather and standards of living
Conclusion
Medieval living standards - postscript
Bibliography
Index.