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- Title
Review of periodical literature.
- Authors
Britnell, R. H.
- Abstract
The article discusses how continuities between recorded medieval settlement patterns and those of earlier periods are a perennial topic for investigation and speculation. The growth of medieval agriculture at the expense of woodlands, marshlands, and pastures receives several new illustrations and developments. Urban society attracts attention both from historians and from archaeologists. While acknowledging the role of leasehold in enlarging landlord power, the switch to leasehold was not in the first instance the result of a conscious policy to undermine peasant tenures; rather, it was in the unfavorable conditions of the early sixteenth century an attempt to anticipate income, later a recognition of the legal protection afforded to tenants. The absence of an ideological commitment to free trade by nineteenth-century governments is revealed in an analysis of the ending of the East India Company's monopoly. Finance and its institutions form the basis of some uncharacteristically interesting work. English interest rates were more the outcome of endogenous market instability than wars or government activity.
- Subjects
RURAL industries; LANDLORD-tenant relations; RENTAL housing; MONETARY policy; INTEREST rate risk; HISTORY of economics
- Publication
Economic History Review, 1992, Vol 45, Issue 1, p154
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0289.1992.tb01297.x