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A Marginal Economy? - East Anglian Breckland in the Later Middle Ages (Paperback)
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A Marginal Economy? - East Anglian Breckland in the Later Middle Ages (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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A theory of the margin has long featured in the work of medieval
historians. Marginal regions are taken to be those of poor soil or
geographical remoteness, where farmers experienced particular
difficulties in grain production. It is argued that such regions
were cultivated only when demographic pressure intensified in the
thirteenth century, but that a combination of soil exhaustion and
demographic decline resulted in severe economic contraction by the
end of the fourteenth century. Marginal regions are seen not just
as sensitive barometers of economic change but as important
catalysts in that change. Despite the importance placed by
historians on the general theory of the margin, this book
represents the first detailed study of a 'marginal region'. It
focuses upon East Anglian Breckland, whose blowing sands are among
the most barren soils in lowland England. Drawing upon a wide range
of sources, this study reconstructs Breckland's late medieval
economy, and shows it to be more diversified and resilient than the
stereotype depicted in marginal theory.
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