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Survival and Discord in Medieval Society : Essays in Honour of Christopher Dyer

ISBN: 9782503528151 | 2503528155
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: David Brown Book Co
Pub. Date: 8/30/2010

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SummaryTable of Contents
This book, a tribute to an exceptional scholar known for his broad-ranging interests, brings together the new work of seventeen students, friends and colleagues of Professor Dyer. The volume reflects his interests in the twin disciplines of history and archaeology and his ground-breaking work in medieval standards of living, social tensions and town-country relations. The varied and stimulating essays presented in this volume examine a host of critical issues dealing with diet, settlement, employment opportunities, taxation, credit and debt, an... MORE
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List of Illustrationsp. vii
Introductionp. 1
The Long and the Short: Rural Settlement in Medieval Englandp. 11
Lords and Wastesp. 29
Postan's Fifteenth Centuryp. 49
Surviving Recession: English Borough Courts and Commercial Contraction, 1350-1500p. 69
Economic Survival in Late Medieval Derbyshire: The Spirituality Income of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, c. 1400-c. 1535p. 89
Waged Building Employment in Medieval England: Subsistence Safety Net or Demographic Trampoline?p. 109
Town, Country, and Law: Royal Courts and Regional Mobility in Medieval England, c. 1200-c. 1400p. 127
Trespass Litigation in the Manor Court in the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuriesp. 145
Individualism, Community, and Lordship: The Peasant Demesne Lessees of Great Horwood, 1320-1610p. 161
Monitoring Demesne Managers through the Manor Court before and after the Black Deathp. 179
Confrontation and Negotiation in a Medieval Village: Alrewas before the Black Deathp. 197
The Control of Discord in Fifteenth-Century Chesterp. 213
Food, Hierarchy, and Class Conflictp. 231
Rural Revolts and Structural Change in the Low Countries, Thirteenth - Early Fourteenth Centuriesp. 249
Revolts of the Late Middle Ages and the Peculiarities of the Englishp. 269
Bibliography of Christopher Dyer's Writings, 1968-2009: The Story So Far…p. 287
Indexp. 295
Tabula Gratulatoriap. 307
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