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The Medieval Antecedents of English Agricultural Progress (Paperback)
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The Medieval Antecedents of English Agricultural Progress (Paperback)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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Until recently, historians tended to stress the perceived
technological and ecological shortcomings of medieval agriculture.
The ten essays assembled in this volume offer a contrary view.
Based upon close documentary analysis of the demesne farms managed
for and by lords, they show that, by 1300, in the most
commercialized parts of England, production decisions were based
upon relative factor costs and commodity prices. Moreover, when and
where economic conditions were ripe and environmental and
institutional circumstances favourable, medieval cultivators
successfully secured high and ecologically sustainable levels of
land productivity. They achieved this by integrating crop and
livestock production into the sort of manure-intensive systems of
mixed-husbandry which later underpinned the more celebrated output
growth of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. If medieval
agriculture failed to fulfill the production potential provided by
wider adoption of such systems, this is more appropriately
explained by the want of the kind of market incentives that might
have justified investment, innovation, and specialization on the
scale that characterized the so-called 'agricultural revolution',
than either the lack of appropriate agricultural technology or the
innate 'backwardness' of medieval cultivators.
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