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The decline of serfdom in late medieval England: from bondage to freedom
Provides an up-to-date survey of the decline of serfdom in England, applying a new methodology for establishing both its chronology and causes to thousands of court rolls from 38 manors located across the south Midlands and East Anglia. This study challenges many of the traditional interpretations of the economy and society of late-medieval England, and of the nature of serfdom itself
A marginal economy?: East Anglian Breckland in the later Middle Ages
In: Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought 12
The implementation of national labour legislation in England after the Black Death, 1349–1400
In: The Economic History Review
ISSN: 1468-0289
AbstractThe responses of labour markets to global pandemics are attracting renewed interest, although the English labour laws in response to the Black Death of 1348/9 – capping wages, imposing annual contracts, and restricting mobility – have a long and established scholarship. The conventional wisdom is that the legislation represented an extension of existing local practices and created common cause among all categories of employer. Yet this view is hard to reconcile with the fact that, despite subsequent revisions, the legislation soon failed. These arguments are tested through original research into how the legislation was actually enforced in a variety of legal tribunals (manorial, borough, and royal). A clear distinction is maintained between public presentments and private litigation, and a robust methodology is pursued to record their absence as well as quantifying their presence. This casts new light on the novelty of the labour laws, the reasons for their failure, and their influence on contract law. The analysis exemplifies the potential for short‐term legal responses to infectious diseases to have unintended and unanticipated long‐term consequences.
The new age of naval power in the Indo-Pacific: strategy, order and regional security The new age of naval power in the Indo-Pacific: strategy, order and regional security , edited by Catherine L. Grant, Alessio Patalano, and James A. Russell, Washington, DC, Georgetown Unive...
In: Defense and security analysis, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 161-162
ISSN: 1475-1801
The regulation of the rural market in waged labour in fourteenth-century England
In: Continuity and change: a journal of social structure, law and demography in past societies, Band 38, Heft 2, S. 137-162
ISSN: 1469-218X
AbstractThis article reconstructs the size and organisation of the rural market in hired labour in fourteenth-century England, providing a comparative reference point for arrangements elsewhere in medieval Europe. Quantitative assessment of 1,445 manorial court sessions from six manors casts new light on the English labour market, which was larger and less regulated than previously assumed and the government's wide-ranging labour legislation in the wake of the Black Death was novel in its scale and provisions. Contrary to received wisdom, manorial authorities made few efforts to regulate labour. The older view had placed an over-reliance on the early work of W.O. Ault and had ignored the significance of nil returns. The reasons for the lack of regulation, and its implications for our understanding of the complex interaction between pandemics, labour markets, and legal responses are explored. Finally, the study illustrates how legal responses to pandemics can have inadvertent yet profound consequences.
The neoliberal city as utopia of exclusion
In: Globalizations, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 31-44
ISSN: 1474-774X
Brian J.Barber, ed., calendared by Constance M. Fraser, The court roll of the manor of Wakefield 1436–1437 (Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2014. Pp. xx+121. 1 fig. 1 map. 1 plate. ISBN 9781903564271 Pbk. £20)
In: The economic history review, Band 69, Heft 2, S. 706-707
ISSN: 1468-0289
DavidBates and RobertLiddiard, eds., East Anglia and its North Sea world in the middle ages (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 349. 10 figs. 9 maps. 66 plates. 6 tabs. ISBN 9781843838463 Hbk. £60)
In: The economic history review, Band 67, Heft 3, S. 850-851
ISSN: 1468-0289
AlanRogers, ed., The act book of St Katherine's gild, Stamford, 1480–1534 (Bury St Edmunds: Abramis Academic Publishing and Stamford Survey Group, 2011. Pp. iv + 299. 2 plates. ISBN 9781845495091 Pbk. £19.95)Constance M.Fraser, ed., The court rolls of the manor of Wakefield from October 1433 to Sept...
In: The economic history review, Band 66, Heft 1, S. 356-358
ISSN: 1468-0289
The English Wool Market, c.1230–1327. By Adrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks, and Paul R. Dryburgh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. viii, 205. $99.00, hardcover
In: The journal of economic history, Band 71, Heft 4, S. 1110-1112
ISSN: 1471-6372
Villeinage in England: a regional case study, c.1250–c.13491
In: The economic history review, Band 62, Heft 2, S. 430-457
ISSN: 1468-0289
Between 1200 and 1349, villeinage was not prominent in Suffolk, and, even in those places where it was locally significant, many of its exactions were lightly enforced. The gap between the theory and practice of villeinage was maintained by custom, although this article emphasizes both the importance of regional custom and its mutability. The relative insignificance of villeinage here has two main implications: first, villeinage cannot have caused any crisis of agrarian productivity before the Black Death; and second, its subsequent dissolution cannot have been the prime mover behind the transformation of the landholding structure and the emergence of agrarian capitalism.
Peasant Welfare in England, 1290‐1348
In: The economic history review, Band 51, Heft 2, S. 223-251
ISSN: 1468-0289
Demographic decline in late medieval England: some thoughts on recent research
In: The economic history review, Band 49, Heft 1, S. 1-19
ISSN: 1468-0289