Rural Society And Economic Change In County Durham
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Author | : A. T. Brown |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1783270756 |
A regional study of landed society in the transition between the late medieval and early modern period.
Author | : Peter L. Larson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Communities |
ISBN | : 0192849875 |
This case study of two rural parishes in County Durham, England, provides an alternate view on the economic development involved in the transition from medieval to modern, partly explaining England's rise to global economic dominance in the seventeenth century. Coal mining did not come to these parishes until the nineteenth century; these are an example of agrarian expansion. Low population, favourable seigniorial administration, and a commercialised society saw the emergence of large farms on the bishopric of Durham soon after the Black Death; these secure copyhold and leasehold tenures were among the earliest known in England. Individualism developed within a strong parish and village community that encouraged growth while enforcing conformity: tenants had freedom to farm as they wished, within limits. Along with low rents, this allowed for a swift expansion of agricultural production in the sixteenth century as population rose and then as the coal trade expanded rapidly. The prosperity of these men is reflected in their lands, livestock, and consumer goods. Yet not all shared in this prosperity, as the poor and landless increased in number simply by population growth. Through reformation and rebellion, these and other parishes prospered without experiencing severe disruption or destruction. In north-eastern England, agrarian development was an evolution and not a revolution. This study shows England's economic development as a single narrative, woven together from a collection of regional experiences at different times and at different speeds.
Author | : Peter Lionel Larson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : 9780192666802 |
This case study of two rural parishes in County Durham, England, provides an alternate view on the economic development involved in the transition from medieval to modern, partly explaining England's rise to global economic dominance in the seventeenth century.
Author | : Alexander Thomas Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : J. Bowen |
Publisher | : Univ of Hertfordshire Press |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2016-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1909291633 |
English rural society underwent fundamental changes between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries with urbanization, commercialization and industrialization producing new challenges and opportunities for inhabitants of rural communities. However, our understanding of this period has been shaped by the compartmentalization of history into medieval and early-modern specialisms and by the debates surrounding the transition from feudalism to capitalism and landlord-tenant relations. Inspired by the classic works of Tawney and Postan, this collection of essays examines their relevance to historians today, distinguishing between their contrasting approaches to the pre-industrial economy and exploring the development of agriculture and rural industry; changes in land and property rights; and competition over resources in the English countryside.
Author | : Peter L. Larson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2022-01-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192666819 |
This case study of two rural parishes in County Durham, England, provides an alternate view on the economic development involved in the transition from medieval to modern, partly explaining England's rise to global economic dominance in the seventeenth century. Coal mining did not come to these parishes until the nineteenth century; these are an example of agrarian expansion. Low population, favourable seigniorial administration, and a commercialised society saw the emergence of large farms on the bishopric of Durham soon after the Black Death; these secure copyhold and leasehold tenures were among the earliest known in England. Individualism developed within a strong parish and village community that encouraged growth while enforcing conformity: tenants had freedom to farm as they wished, within limits. Along with low rents, this allowed for a swift expansion of agricultural production in the sixteenth century as population rose and then as the coal trade expanded rapidly. The prosperity of these men is reflected in their lands, livestock, and consumer goods. Yet not all shared in this prosperity, as the poor and landless increased in number simply by population growth. Through reformation and rebellion, these and other parishes prospered without experiencing severe disruption or destruction. In north-eastern England, agrarian development was an evolution and not a revolution. This study shows England's economic development as a single narrative, woven together from a collection of regional experiences at different times and at different speeds.
Author | : Richard Britnell |
Publisher | : Univ of Hertfordshire Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2009-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1907396446 |
With special emphasis on the period following the Black Death, this new collection of essays explores agriculture and rural society during the late Middle Ages. Combining a broad perspective on agrarian problems--such as depopulation and social conflict--with illustrative material from detailed local and regional research, this compilation demonstrates how these general problems were solved within specific contexts. The contributors supply detailed studies relating to the use of the land, the movement of prices, the distribution of property, the organization of trade, and the cohesion of village society, among other issues. New research on regional development in medieval England and other European countries is also discussed.
Author | : Robert S. DuPlessis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2019-09-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108417655 |
Revised, updated and expanded, this second edition analyzes the structures and practices of European economies within a global context.
Author | : Mark Bailey |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2021-02-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198857888 |
The Black Death was the worst pandemic in recorded history. This book presents a major reevaluation of its immediate impact and longer-term consequences in England.
Author | : Jeremy Black |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2019-07-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 025304233X |
How did it feel to hear Macbeth's witches chant of "double, double toil and trouble" at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer? How were justice and forgiveness understood by the audience who first watched King Lear; how were love and romance viewed by those who first saw Romeo and Juliet? In England in the Age of Shakespeare, Jeremy Black takes readers on a tour of life in the streets, homes, farms, churches, and palaces of the Bard's era. Panning from play to audience and back again, Black shows how Shakespeare's plays would have been experienced and interpreted by those who paid to see them. From the dangers of travel to the indignities of everyday life in teeming London, Black explores the jokes, political and economic references, and small asides that Shakespeare's audiences would have recognized. These moments of recognition often reflected the audience's own experiences of what it was to, as Hamlet says, "grunt and sweat under a weary life." Black's clear and sweeping approach seeks to reclaim Shakespeare from the ivory tower and make the plays' histories more accessible to the public for whom the plays were always intended.