English Rural Society, 1900-1350
Author: J. Z. Titow
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 208
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Author: J. Z. Titow
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. Z. Titow
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-06
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1351625721
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title, first published in 1969, is concerned with historic documents and their uses, and with a discussion of living standards among the peasants, as it is the author’s belief that any worthwhile discussion is impossible without an understanding of the sources and their limitations. With its emphasis on the controversial and debateable, this book is admirable proof that a study of medieval history is not merely a matter of memorising facts.
Author: Christopher Dyer
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781902806594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays show how historical revisionism has overturned the view that English villages, before industrialization, hadself-sufficient economies and populations largely separated from the outside world. Topics include demography, migration, agriculture, inheritance, politics, employment, industry, and markets, and covers such communities as Norfolk and Westmorland."
Author: J. Bowen
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Published: 2016-03-01
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1909291633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnglish rural society underwent fundamental changes between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries with urbanization, commercialization and industrialization producing new challenges and opportunities for inhabitants of rural communities. However, our understanding of this period has been shaped by the compartmentalization of history into medieval and early-modern specialisms and by the debates surrounding the transition from feudalism to capitalism and landlord-tenant relations. Inspired by the classic works of Tawney and Postan, this collection of essays examines their relevance to historians today, distinguishing between their contrasting approaches to the pre-industrial economy and exploring the development of agriculture and rural industry; changes in land and property rights; and competition over resources in the English countryside.
Author: Edward Higgs
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-10-06
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1441138013
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPersonal identification is very much a live political issue in Britain and this book looks at why this is the case, and why, paradoxically, the theft of identity has become ever more common as the means of identification have multiplied. Identifying the English looks not only at how criminals have been identified - branding, fingerprinting, DNA - but also at the identification of the individual with seals and signatures, of the citizen by means of passports and ID cards, and of the corpse. Beginning his history in the medieval period, Edward Higgs reveals how it was not the Industrial Revolution that brought the most radical changes in identification techniques, as many have assumed, but rather the changing nature of the State and commerce, and their relationship with citizens and customers. In the twentieth century the very different historical techniques have converged on the holding of information on databases, and increasingly on biometrics, and the multiplication of these external databases outside the control of individuals has continued to undermine personal identity security.
Author: John Broad
Publisher:
Published: 2004-04-22
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521829335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploration of the rise and fall of the dynastic Verney family of Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire.
Author: Christine Fertig
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2022-07-19
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 178327722X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst comparative study of landless households brings out their major role in European history and society.
Author: Berenice M. Kerr
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1999-07-22
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0191542865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first detailed scholarly study of the Order of Fontevraud's English monastic houses. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the Order was notably prestigious and autonomous, renowned both for the prayerfulness of its members and for their independent management of their affairs. The huge following of Robert Arbrissel (d. 1116) included many women - not at first the aristocrats who later dominated the Order of Fontevraud, but prostitutes, beggars, and other representatives of the dregs of society. Urged by Church authorities to stabilize his women followers, Robert gave them a Rule which was, in essentials, that of St Benedict, but he introduced men as chaplains, clerks, and lay-brothers for the nuns. Uniquely, however, for contemporary houses for women, the men were placed firmly under the direction of the nuns and remained there throughout the Order's history. Sister Berenice Kerr's study of Fontevraud's English establishments: Amesbury, Nuneaton, and Westwood (Grovebury, the Order's fourth foundation, was never more than administrative centre) opens up a wide range of insights and information about monasticism and religious life for women in the middle ages. Dr Kerr examines the endowment of each house, and its subsequent acquisition of property and its administration; monastic observance; domestic economy, including expenditure on food and drink; the scale and layout of conventual buildings, and the exploitation of new assets, such as salt-pans, markets, and appropriated churches.
Author: A. T. Brown
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1783270756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA regional study of landed society in the transition between the late medieval and early modern period.
Author: Edward Miller
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-17
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1317872908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first volume of a two-volume study of medieval England covering the period between the Norman Conquest and the Black Death. The book opens with a summary portrait of the English economy and society in the reign of William I. It goes on to examine in detail the population increase from 1086 to 1349 and to investigate the structure of society where relationships were rooted in the dependence of man upon man.