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Town and Countryside in western Berkshire, c.1327-c.1600 - Social and Economic Change (Hardcover)
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Town and Countryside in western Berkshire, c.1327-c.1600 - Social and Economic Change (Hardcover)
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A fresh examination of how society and economy changed at the end
of the middle ages, comparing urban and rural experience. The
traditional boundary between the medieval and early modern periods
is challenged in this new study of social and economic change that
bridges the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It addresses the
large historical questions -what changed, when and why - through a
detailed case study of western Berkshire and Newbury, integrating
the experiences of both town and countryside. Newbury is of
particular interest being a rising cloth manufacturing centre that
had contacts with London and overseas due to its specialist
production of kerseys. The evidence comes from original documentary
research and the data are clearly presented in tables and graphs.
It is a book alive with theactions of people, famous men such as
the clothier John Winchcombe known as 'Jack of Newbury', but more
notably by the hundreds of individuals, such as William Eyston or
Isabella Bullford, who acquired property, cultivated their lands,
or, in the case of Isabella, managed the mill complex after her
husband's death. MARGARET YATES is Lecturer in History at the
University of Reading.
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