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- Title
A Note on the Farming Out of Manors.
- Authors
Postan, M. M.
- Abstract
This article comments on the article related to disintegration of manors in England in the 12th century, by A.R. Bridbury. The author says that for all the intemperance of its tone the refutation does not establish a substantive case to answer. Manorial functionaries were difficult to supervise from a far, daily operations on the demesne could not be ordered and controlled at all closely. Hence the recurrent tendency on the part of landlords to avoid the penalties and uncertainties of direct management by recourse to indirect management through farmers capable of offering firm, that is non-fluctuating, yields. This tendency, however, was likely to be slowed down or arrested in times especially favorable to direct exploitation, such as the greater part of the thirteenth century. During that period, law and order prevailed, prices of agricultural produce were high and rising, labor costs were stable or declining, and the promise of high and ever-rising profits from demesne cultivation was correspondingly great.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; MANORS; REAL property; LAND tenure; WORKING class; LABOR costs
- Publication
Economic History Review, 1978, Vol 31, Issue 4, p521
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2595746