Conflict And Compromise In The Late Medieval Countryside

Author : Peter L. Larson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136600166

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Conflict and Compromise in the Late Medieval Countryside by Peter L. Larson Pdf

Larson examines the changing relations between lords and peasants in post-Black Death Durham. This was a time period of upheaval and change, part of the transition from ‘medieval’ to ‘modern.’ Many historians have argued about the nature of this change and its causes, often putting forth a single all-encompassing model; Larson presses for the importance of individual choice and action, resulting in a flexible, human framework that provides a more appropriate explanation for the many paths followed in this period. The theoretical side is balanced by an ‘on the ground’ examination of rural life in Durham-- an attempt to capture the raw emotions and decisions of the period. No one has really examined this; most studies are speculative, relying on theory or statistics, rather than tracing the history of real people, both in the immediate aftermath of the plague, and in the longer term. Durham is fortunate in that records survive in abundance for this period; most other studies of rural society end at 1300 or 1348. As such, this book fills a major gap in medieval English history while at the same time grappling with major theories of change for this transformative period.

Author : Peter Hoppenbrouwers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2503575404

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Village Community and Conflict in Late Medieval Drenthe by Peter Hoppenbrouwers Pdf

Author : Richard Britnell,Ben Dodds
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781907396441

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Agriculture and Rural Society After the Black Death by Richard Britnell,Ben Dodds Pdf

With special emphasis on the period following the Black Death, this new collection of essays explores agriculture and rural society during the late Middle Ages. Combining a broad perspective on agrarian problems--such as depopulation and social conflict--with illustrative material from detailed local and regional research, this compilation demonstrates how these general problems were solved within specific contexts. The contributors supply detailed studies relating to the use of the land, the movement of prices, the distribution of property, the organization of trade, and the cohesion of village society, among other issues. New research on regional development in medieval England and other European countries is also discussed.

Author : Spike Gibbs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009311830

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Lordship, State Formation and Local Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern England by Spike Gibbs Pdf

Shows how lordship and state formation affected local authority in the transition between medieval and early modern England.

Author : Miriam Müller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000450736

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The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life by Miriam Müller Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life brings together the latest research on peasantry in medieval Europe. The aim is to place peasants – as small-scale agricultural producers – firmly at the centre of this volume, as people with agency, immense skill and resilience to shape their environments, cultures and societies. This volume examines the changes and evolutions within village societies across the medieval period, over a broad chronology and across a wide geography. Rural structures, families and hierarchies are examined alongside tool use and trade, as well as the impact of external factors such as famine and the Black Death. The contributions offer insights into multidisciplinary research, incorporating archaeological as well as landscape studies alongside traditional historical documentary approaches across widely differing local and regional contexts across medieval Europe. This book will be an essential reference for scholars and students of medieval history, as well those interested in rural, cultural and social history.

Author : Maïka De Keyzer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351681858

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Inclusive Commons and the Sustainability of Peasant Communities in the Medieval Low Countries by Maïka De Keyzer Pdf

Is inclusiveness in the commons and sustainability a paradox? Late medieval and Early Modern rural societies encountered challenges because of growing population pressure, urbanisation and commercialisation. While some regions went along this path and commercialised and intensified production, others sailed a different course, maintaining communal property and managing resources via common pool resource institutions. To prevent overexploitation and free riding, it was generally believed that strong formalised institutions, strict access regimes and restricted use rights were essential. By looking at the late medieval Campine area, a sandy, infertile and fragile region, dominated by communal property and located at the core of the densely populated and commercialised Low Countries, it has become clear that sustainability, economic success and inclusiveness can be compatible. Because of a balanced distribution of power between smallholders and elites, strong property claims, a predominance of long-term agricultural strategies and the vitality of informal institutions and conflict resolution mechanisms, the Campine peasant communities were able to avert ecological distress while maintaining a positive economic climate.

Author : Brendan Smith
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199594757

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Crisis and Survival in Late Medieval Ireland by Brendan Smith Pdf

This volume explores the ways in which the English settlers in Louth maintained their English identity in the face of plague and warfare, through the turbulent decades between 1330 and 1450.

Author : Jennifer Hole
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319388601

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Economic Ethics in Late Medieval England, 1300–1500 by Jennifer Hole Pdf

Drawing on an array of archival evidence from court records to the poems of Chaucer, this work explores how medieval thinkers understood economic activity, how their ideas were transmitted and the extent to which they were accepted. Moving beyond the impersonal operations of an economy to its ethical dimension, Hole’s socio-cultural study considers not only the ideas and beliefs of theologians and philosophers, but how these influenced assumptions and preoccupations about material concerns in late medieval English society. Beginning with late medieval English writings on economic ethics and its origins, the author illuminates a society which, although strictly hierarchical and unequal, nevertheless fostered expectations that all its members should avoid greed and excess consumption. Throughout, Hole aims to show that economic ethics had a broader application than trade and usury in late medieval England.

Author : Miriam Müller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030036027

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Childhood, Orphans and Underage Heirs in Medieval Rural England by Miriam Müller Pdf

This book explores the experience of childhood and adolescence in later medieval English rural society from 1250 to 1450. Hit by major catastrophes – the Great Famine and then a few decades later the Black Death – this book examines how rural society coped with children left orphaned, and land inherited by children and adolescents considered too young to run their holdings. Using manorial court rolls, accounts and other documents, Miriam Müller looks at the guardians who looked after the children, and the chattels and lands the children brought with them. This book considers not just rural concepts of childhood, and the training and schooling young peasants received, but also the nature of supportive kinship networks, family structures and the roles of lordship, to offer insights into the experience of childhood and adolescence in medieval villages more broadly.

Author : A. T. Brown
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783270750

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Rural Society and Economic Change in County Durham by A. T. Brown Pdf

A regional study of landed society in the transition between the late medieval and early modern period.

Author : Sara M. Butler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316512388

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Pain, Penance, and Protest by Sara M. Butler Pdf

An examination of peine fort et dure, the coercive medieval punishment for defendants refusing to plead to criminal indictments.

Author : Peter L. Larson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Communities
ISBN : 9780192849878

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Rethinking the Great Transition by Peter L. Larson Pdf

This case study of two rural parishes in County Durham, England, provides an alternate view on the economic development involved in the transition from medieval to modern, partly explaining England's rise to global economic dominance in the seventeenth century. Coal mining did not come to these parishes until the nineteenth century; these are an example of agrarian expansion. Low population, favourable seigniorial administration, and a commercialised society saw the emergence of large farms on the bishopric of Durham soon after the Black Death; these secure copyhold and leasehold tenures were among the earliest known in England. Individualism developed within a strong parish and village community that encouraged growth while enforcing conformity: tenants had freedom to farm as they wished, within limits. Along with low rents, this allowed for a swift expansion of agricultural production in the sixteenth century as population rose and then as the coal trade expanded rapidly. The prosperity of these men is reflected in their lands, livestock, and consumer goods. Yet not all shared in this prosperity, as the poor and landless increased in number simply by population growth. Through reformation and rebellion, these and other parishes prospered without experiencing severe disruption or destruction. In north-eastern England, agrarian development was an evolution and not a revolution. This study shows England's economic development as a single narrative, woven together from a collection of regional experiences at different times and at different speeds.

Author : James B. Tschen-Emmons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216056805

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Buildings and Landmarks of Medieval Europe by James B. Tschen-Emmons Pdf

Through the use of images, diagrams, and detailed descriptions, this book enables readers to appreciate how the construction, design, and function of famous structures inform our understanding of societies of the past. Buildings and Landmarks of Medieval Europe: The Middle Ages Revealed makes use of significant buildings as "representative structures" to provide insight into specific cultures, historical periods, or topics of the Middle Ages. The explanations of these buildings' construction, original intended use and change over time, and design elements allow readers to better comprehend what life in European societies of the past was like, covering social, political, economic, and intellectual perspectives. Readers will be able to apply what they learn from the discussions of the structures to improve their understanding of the historical period as well as their skills of observation and assessment needed to analyze these landmark structures and draw meaningful conclusions about their context and significance. The book's supporting features—a chronology, biographical appendix, glossary, and subject index—help researchers in successfully completing their papers or projects.

Author : Mark Bailey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192599742

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After the Black Death by Mark Bailey Pdf

The Black Death of 1348-9 is the most catastrophic event and worst pandemic in recorded history. After the Black Death offers a major reinterpretation of its immediate impact and longer-term consequences in England. After the Black Death reassesses the established scholarship on the impact of plague on fourteenth-century England and draws upon original research into primary sources to offer a major re-interpretation of the subject. It studies how the government reacted to the crisis, and how communities adapted in its wake. It places the pandemic within the wider context of extreme weather and epidemiological events, the institutional framework of markets and serfdom, and the role of law in reducing risks and conditioning behaviour. The government's response to the Black Death is reconsidered in order to cast new light on the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. By 1400, the effects of plague had resulted in major changes to the structure of society and the economy, creating the pre-conditions for England's role in the Little Divergence (whereby economic performance in parts of north western Europe began to move decisively ahead of the rest of the continent). After the Black Death explores in detail how a major pandemic transformed society, and, in doing so, elevates the third quarter of the fourteenth century from a little-understood paradox to a critical period of profound and irreversible change in English and global history.

Author : Ben Dodds
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030890582

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Myths and Memories of the Black Death by Ben Dodds Pdf

This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic. The concept of cultural memory is used to examine the ways in which journalists, writers of fiction, scholars and others referred to, described and explained the Black Death from around 1800 onwards. The distant medieval past was often used to make sense of aspects of the present, from the cholera pandemics of the nineteenth-century to the climate crisis of the early twenty-first century. A series of overlapping myths related to the Black Death emerged based only in part on historical evidence. Cultural memory circulates in a variety of media from the scholarly article to the video game and online video clip, and the connections and differences between mediated representations of the Black Death are considered. The Black Death is one of the most well-known aspects of the medieval world, and this study of its associated memories and myths reveals the depth and complexity of interactions between the distant and recent past.