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- Title
PERIODICAL LITERATURE, 1966.
- Authors
Thompson, F. M. L.
- Abstract
The article focuses on medieval studies published in periodicals of Great Britain concerning economic history. The year 1966 produced a reasonably large crop of medieval studies in periodicals, although the perennial subjects of debate featured in only a few of them. In one such study, A.R.H. Baker argued that the returns of the Nonarum Inquisitiones indicate an extensive contraction of arable land in several districts when they are compared with the data in the papal taxation of 1291, and that in areas as diverse as Shropshire, Sussex, the lands north and west of London, and Bedfordshire the evidence of 1342 indicates an impoverished and shrinking population. At the same time Barbara F. Harvey, writing in the "Transactions of the Royal Historical Society," surveyed the whole course of the argument since the 1930's, and concluded that land values and the present topographical studies do not support the thesis that the agricultural crises of the decade 1310-20 inaugurated a continuous decline in population down to the Black Death. The possibility of some growth in the economy after 1300, she added, should be left open, and even those who might wish to close it will find her references a useful gatherum in a subject in which bibliographical aid is always welcome.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; MEDIEVAL literature; PERIODICALS; ECONOMIC history; LAND use; PAPAL taxation
- Publication
Economic History Review, 1967, Vol 20, Issue 3, p570
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article