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A Prospering Society - Wiltshire in the Later Middle Ages (Hardcover, New)
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A Prospering Society - Wiltshire in the Later Middle Ages (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in Regional and Local History, 10
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This book seeks to explore the changing nature of English society
through a case study of countryside and town in southern England
during the period from c.1380 to c.1520. It explores the influence
of landscape and population on the agriculture of Wiltshire, the
regional patterns of arable and pastoral farming, and the growing
contrast between the large-scale mixed farming of the chalklands
and the family farms of the claylands. It examines the changing
situation of the rural tenant population as it reacted to the
greater opportunities available in the land-market. During this
period, Wiltshire became one of great cloth-producing counties of
England (as reflected in its rising taxable wealth). Such economic
expansion generated jobs both within the industry and beyond,
stimulating the market for food, services and manufactured goods.
Salisbury was one of greatest cities in the kingdom, and below this
was a hierarchy of interesting lesser towns. But such growth
generated its own problems: more and more people became dependent
on the cloth trade and particularly on exporting cloth; if exports
fell, as during the mid-fifteenth-century crisis, they suffered. As
scholars are increasingly aware, the later Middle Ages was a period
of considerable change, and this study contributes to debates about
the nature of both change and continuity at a national level. It
will also be of value to local historians interested in one of the
most important periods in Wiltshire's history.
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