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Making a Living in the Middle Ages - The People of Britain 850-1520 (Paperback)
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Making a Living in the Middle Ages - The People of Britain 850-1520 (Paperback)
Series: The New Economic History of Britain Series
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Dramatic social and economic change during the middle ages altered
the lives of the people of Britain in far-reaching ways, from the
structure of their families to the ways they made their livings. In
this masterly book, preeminent medieval historian Christopher Dyer
presents a fresh view of the British economy from the ninth to the
sixteenth century and a vivid new account of medieval life. He
begins his volume with the formation of towns and villages in the
ninth and tenth centuries and ends with the inflation, population
rise, and colonial expansion of the sixteenth century. This is a
book about ideas and attitudes as well as the material world, and
Dyer shows how people regarded the economy and responded to
economic change. He examines the growth of towns, the clearing of
lands, the Great Famine, the Black Death, and the upheavals of the
fifteenth century through the eyes of those who experienced them.
He also explores the dilemmas and decisions of those who were
making a living in a changing world-from peasants, artisans, and
wage earners to barons and monks. Drawing on archaeological and
landscape evidence along with more conventional archives and
records, the author offers here an engaging survey of British
medieval economic history unrivaled in breadth and clarity.
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