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- Title
The Late Medieval Countryside: England's Rural Economy and Society, 1275-1500.
- Authors
Routt, David
- Abstract
Late medieval England's rural economy and society remain the focus of energetic and creative study by historians. Punctuated by demographic catastrophes such as the Great Famine and the Black Death, England's late Middle Ages serves as a virtual laboratory for analysis of historical change as scholars trace the unraveling of the manorial socioeconomic arrangements and the emergence of a brand of agrarian capitalism. To make sense of a wealth of royal and local sources, scholars employ a range of theoretical approaches drawn from economics, namely a population-and-resources model, a neo-Marxist thesis, and a commercialization hypothesis, among others. Sociological approaches are also found in the late medievalist's analytical toolbox. Current research particularly focuses on the excavation of lord-peasant relations, the nature of the peasantry's agriculture, and the relative affluence and poverty of the late medieval peasant.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; HISTORICAL research methods; SOCIAL history; SOCIAL mobility; SOCIAL change -- History; RURAL development; BRITISH history sources; MEDIEVAL British history; HISTORY; MATHEMATICAL models; MIDDLE Ages; LOCAL history; ECONOMIC history
- Publication
History Compass, 2013, Vol 11, Issue 6, p474
- ISSN
1478-0542
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/hic3.12061