This study is centred on the Cornish manorial estates of the Duchy
of Cornwall in the later Middle Ages, and has been compiled from a
very full and hitherto neglected series of records, the
completeness of which is perhaps unique for a lay estate. Most
aspects of the history of the estates have been recorded and those
which differed from other regions of England have been stressed. In
order to place the Duchy estates within their regional context Dr
Hatcher has studied a wide range of documents and produced a mass
of new evidence concerning tin-mining, fishing, trade, towns and
local industry in Cornwall and Devon. He shows, for example, that
agricultural prosperity in later medieval Cornwall followed an
exceptional course, and was determined by a series of
interconnected changes within the regional economy, with a much
less direct and immediate causal link than is commonly assumed
between declining population after 1349 and agricultural recession.
The intimate connexions between agriculture. and industry and
commerce are additionally emphasized by the manifold business
interests of leading Duchy tenants.
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