A Hertfordshire Demesne Of Westminster Abbey

Author : Derek Vincent Stern
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN 13 : 9780900458927
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hertfordshire Demesne of Westminster Abbey written by Derek Vincent Stern and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering contribution to the economic history of medieval England focuses on the Hertfordshire demesne farm of Kinsbourne (later Herpendenbury) and questions whether the farm's periods of economic success and failure were due to human factors or to the forces of nature. Originally written as a doctoral thesis in 1978, the history has now been edited and published as a memorial to its author who died in 1993. The detailed study is based on the meticulous analysis of numerous primary sources which, the author concludes, suggest that the weather had little impact on the efficiency, or otherwise, of the manor's management, accountancy or exploitation of the market. A lengthy introduction places the work within the context of meteorological debate and regional history.

Author : Derek Vincent Stern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hertfordshire Manor of Westminster Abbey written by Derek Vincent Stern and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The demesne's demise is explained by referring to the fall in prices after 1375, and by suggesting that difficulties were experienced in securing labour.

Author : William Chester Jordan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691150060
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tale of Two Monasteries written by William Chester Jordan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a view of the history of France and England through rival institutions, Westminster Abbey and the Abbey of Saint-Denis, and the men who ruled them, this book traces social, economic, cultural, and ideological aspects of their histories, highlighting both the similarities and differences among them.

Author : Kathleen Pribyl
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319559532
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farming, Famine and Plague written by Kathleen Pribyl and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is situated at the cross-roads of environmental, agricultural and economic history and climate science. It investigates the climatic background for the two most significant risk factors for life in the crisis-prone England of the Later Middle Ages: subsistence crisis and plague. Based on documentary data from eastern England, the late medieval growing season temperature is reconstructed and the late summer precipitation of that period indexed. Using these data, and drawing together various other regional (proxy) data and a wide variety of contemporary documentary sources, the impact of climatic variability and extremes on agriculture, society and health are assessed. Vulnerability and resilience changed over time: before the population loss in the Great Pestilence in the mid-fourteenth century meteorological factors contributing to subsistence crises were the main threat to the English people, after the arrival of Yersinia pestis it was the weather conditions that faciliated the formation of recurrent major plague outbreaks. Agriculture and harvest success in late medieval England were inextricably linked to both short term weather extremes and longer term climatic fluctuations. In this respect the climatic transition period in the Late Middle Ages (c. 1250-1450) is particularly important since the broadly favourable conditions for grain cultivation during the Medieval Climate Optimum gave way to the Little Ice Age, when agriculture was faced with many more challenges; the fourteenth century in particular was marked by high levels of climatic variability.

Author : Richard Britnell
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN 13 : 1907396446
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agriculture and Rural Society After the Black Death written by Richard Britnell and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With special emphasis on the period following the Black Death, this new collection of essays explores agriculture and rural society during the late Middle Ages. Combining a broad perspective on agrarian problems--such as depopulation and social conflict--with illustrative material from detailed local and regional research, this compilation demonstrates how these general problems were solved within specific contexts. The contributors supply detailed studies relating to the use of the land, the movement of prices, the distribution of property, the organization of trade, and the cohesion of village society, among other issues. New research on regional development in medieval England and other European countries is also discussed.

Author : R. H. Britnell
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843830290
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Winchester Pipe Rolls and Medieval English Society written by R. H. Britnell and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The accounts of one of the great estates of medieval England, from 1209. A remarkable survival, they supply detailed evidence on a range of issues. The Winchester pipe rolls - the estate accounts of the bishops of Winchester - constitute one of the most remarkable documentary survivals from medieval England, and are without parallel anywhere in the world, supplying detailed evidence for agriculture, prices, wages, the land market and peasant society in an exceptionally well-preserved sequence from 1209 onwards. They have attracted the attention of historians of medieval economy and society for over acentury, first in deposit in the Public Record Office, more recently in Hampshire Record Office. The essays collected here celebrate their survival and demonstrate their quality, putting them into perspective as a documentary source, and assessing how far their evidence is representative of England as a whole. The volume also demonstrates some of the new ways in which they are being put to use to enhance knowledge of medieval England, with a numberof the articles concerned with recent research projects. The book is completed with a handlist of these records up to 1455, the year in which the bishopric administration started to keep its accounts in registers rather than rolls. Contributors: RICHARD H. BRITNELL, BRUCE M. S. CAMPBELL, JOHN LANGDON, JOHN MULLAN, MARK PAGE, K. J. STOCKS, CHRISTOPHER THORNTON, NICHOLAS C. VINCENT. The late RICHARD BRITNELL was Professor of History at the University of Durham.

Author : Scott G. Bruce
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004180079
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecologies and Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe written by Scott G. Bruce and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents essays on current research in medieval and early modern environmental history by historians and social scientists in honor of Richard C. Hoffmann.

Author : J. T. Smith
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN 13 : 9780954218935
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St Albans, 1650-1700 written by J. T. Smith and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of St Albans covers the period from the Commonwealth to the accession of Anne which embraces religious and political changes of great interest in the life of a town of strongly dissenting opinion.

Author : Bruce M.S. Campbell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000941639
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medieval Antecedents of English Agricultural Progress written by Bruce M.S. Campbell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, historians tended to stress the perceived technological and ecological shortcomings of medieval agriculture. The ten essays assembled in this volume offer a contrary view. Based upon close documentary analysis of the demesne farms managed for and by lords, they show that, by 1300, in the most commercialized parts of England, production decisions were based upon relative factor costs and commodity prices. Moreover, when and where economic conditions were ripe and environmental and institutional circumstances favourable, medieval cultivators successfully secured high and ecologically sustainable levels of land productivity. They achieved this by integrating crop and livestock production into the sort of manure-intensive systems of mixed-husbandry which later underpinned the more celebrated output growth of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. If medieval agriculture failed to fulfill the production potential provided by wider adoption of such systems, this is more appropriately explained by the want of the kind of market incentives that might have justified investment, innovation, and specialization on the scale that characterized the so-called 'agricultural revolution', than either the lack of appropriate agricultural technology or the innate 'backwardness' of medieval cultivators.

Author : David Stone
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191514357
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decision-Making in Medieval Agriculture written by David Stone and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-09-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating and important book uses a wealth of contemporary sources to reconstruct the mental world of medieval farmers and, by doing so, argues that these key figures in the Middle Ages have been unfairly stereotyped. David Stone overturns the traditional view of medieval countrymen as economically backward and instead reveals that agricultural decision-making was as rational in the fouteenth century as in modern times. Investigating agricultural mentalities first at a local level and then for England as a whole, Dr Stone argues that human action shaped the course of the rural economy to a much greater extent than has hitherto been appreciated, and challenges the commonly held view that the medieval period was dominated by ecological and economic crises. Focusing in particular on responses to commercial forces and the adoption of agricultural technology, this book has significant implications for our understanding of agricultural development throughout the last thousand years.