The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 2, 1042-1350H. E. Hallam, Joan Thirsk This 1988 volume deals with the agrarian history of England and Wales from the beginning of the reign of Edward the Confessor to the outbreak of the Black Death in 1348. It divides the counties into regions and deals with each under the headings of new settlements, agriculture and pastoralism (crops and stock), yield ratios and techniques (including field systems, crop nutrition and drainage). There are also sections on the Late Saxon period, Domesday England, wages and prices, vernacular architecture, and the life of the people. The volume as a whole offers a detailed description of trends, both economic and social, between 1042 and 1350 and of the complexities of an economy and society split into many and various sub-economies and sub-societies, all very different from one another but closely knit and interdependent. |
Contents
Preface by the General Editor | xxvi |
England before the Norman Conquest I | xli |
CHAPTER | 3 |
Introduction | 45 |
Agricultural Resources and Livestock | 121 |
Conclusion | 136 |
B Southeastern England | 174 |
The East Midlands | 189 |
E The West Midlands | 660 |
F Southwestern England | 675 |
G Northern England | 685 |
A Longterm movements page | 716 |
yields and prices | 733 |
Livestock prices | 745 |
Prices of wool cheese and salt | 755 |
F The cost of living | 772 |
Southern England page | 203 |
E The West Midlands | 224 |
F Southwestern England | 234 |
G Northern England | 245 |
H Wales and the Marches | 260 |
CHAPTER 4 | 272 |
B Southeastern England | 312 |
The East Midlands | 325 |
Southern England | 341 |
E The West Midlands | 369 |
F Southwestern England | 383 |
G Northern England | 399 |
H Wales and the Marches | 412 |
Wales | 468 |
Drainage Techniques | 497 |
A Eastern England | 515 |
Southern England | 524 |
F Southwestern England | 532 |
CHAPTER 6 | 594 |
B Southeastern England | 621 |
The East Midlands | 634 |
Southern England | 650 |
G Statistical appendix | 779 |
A Sale prices of major grains and legumes 1165613556 | 787 |
CHAPTER 8 | 818 |
B The Workers Diet | 825 |
The Peasants View of his Lot | 845 |
CHAPTER 9 | 854 |
B Manors | 861 |
Granges | 888 |
Peasant houses | 898 |
E Priests houses | 915 |
F Industry page | 920 |
Wales | 931 |
B Manors | 936 |
Granges | 946 |
E Houses of the Clergy | 958 |
Conclusion | 965 |
A Population and landholding page | 966 |
B Conclusion | 1002 |
Bibliography | 1009 |
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The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 2, 1042-1350 H. E. Hallam,Joan Thirsk No preview available - 1988 |
The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 2, 1042-1350 H. E. Hallam,Joan Thirsk No preview available - 2011 |
Common terms and phrases
Abbey Manor abbot acres agrarian agricultural arable areas assarts average barley Berkshire bishop Black Death buildings bushels Cambridgeshire cattle cent cheese Cornwall counties cows crops cultivation demesne Derbyshire Devon Domesday early fourteenth century East Midlands eastern England English Essex estates evidence excavated fallow farm fenland Forest Glastonbury Glastonbury Abbey Glos Gloucestershire grain half Hampshire harvest held Hereford Herefordshire horses houses Huntingdonshire Ibid increased Kent land late legumes Lincolnshire livestock lord lord's manors marl meadow median holding medieval Norfolk number of holdings oats oxen Oxfordshire paid pasture peas peasant peasantry period pigs place-names plough plough-teams population Priory quarter recorded region rents settlement sheep Shropshire slaves smallholders sokemen Somerset south-west sown Suffolk survey Sussex Table teams tenants thirteenth century twelfth century village villeins virgate wages Wales Warwickshire Weald West wheat Wiltshire Winchester manors wood woodland Worcestershire yield Yorkshire