Bruce M S Campbell

The Medieval Antecedents of English Agricultural Progress

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The ten essays assembled in this volume are important contributions to the present re-assessment of how the medieval 'backwardness' of English agriculture was transformed into modern 'progress'. They provide clear empirical evidence that, when and where economic, environmental, and institutional circumstances were ripe, medieval cultivators were as capable of securing high levels of land productivity as their early modern successors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781138375130
• ISBN-10: 1138375136
• Artikelnr.: 55982514

Autorenporträt

Bruce M.S. Campbell is Professor of Medieval Economic History at the School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, The Queen's University of Belfast, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction. Progressiveness and backwardness in 13th- and early
14th-century English agriculture: the verdict of recent research;
Agricultural progress in medieval England: some evidence from eastern
Norfolk; Arable productivity in medieval England: some evidence from
Norfolk; Land, labour, livestock, and productivity trends in English
seignorial agriculture, 1208-1450; A new perspective on medieval and early
modern agriculture: 6 centuries of Norfolk farming c1250-c1850 (with Mark
Overton); Norfolk livestock farming 1250-1740: a comparative study of
manorial accounts and probate inventories (with Mark Overton); Commercial
dairy production on medieval English demesnes: the case of Norfolk;
Measuring the commercialisation of seigneurial agriculture circa 1300;
Matching supply to demand: crop production and disposal by English demesnes
in the century of the Black Death; Constraint or constrained? changing
perspectives on medieval English agriculture; Index