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Land and People in Late Medieval England (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Land and People in Late Medieval England (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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This is the third collection of articles by Bruce Campbell to
appear in the Variorum series. Late medieval England was an
overwhelmingly rural society. Never since has such a large
proportion of the population lived in the countryside or relied so
directly for its livelihood upon agriculture. The lot of a majority
of that population was always a hard one - and never more so than
during the first half of the 14th century, when peasants competed
with each other for ever-scarcer land and work and a succession of
major harvest failures jeopardised the survival of many.
Nevertheless, experience varied considerably, both during this era
of mounting population pressure and the century and more of
population decline and stagnation that followed the demographic
disaster of the Black Death. How well individual communities coped
during these contrasting conditions of expansion and contraction
owed much to the quality and composition of their natural-resource
endowment, a good deal to their ability to take advantage of
changing commercial opportunities, and sometimes almost everything
to how exposed they were to military conflict. Always, however,
much hinged upon how the twin feudal institutions of lordship and
serfdom were mapped onto land and people via the manorial system.
These are the themes variously explored by the eight essays
assembled in this volume, which range from a case-study of a single
crowded Norfolk manor to a consideration of the broad and, towards
the end of the Middle Ages, widening contrasts that persisted
between North and South.
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