Medieval Agriculture
In: The economic history review, Band 12, Heft 1/2, S. 83
ISSN: 1468-0289
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In: The economic history review, Band 12, Heft 1/2, S. 83
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: The journal of economic history, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 576-587
ISSN: 1471-6372
The current controversies about production and yields of medieval agriculture may give an outsider the impression that on this subject historians are more at variance than they actually are. Some historians may still cling to the Victorian belief that things economic were perpetually on the rise; historians thus minded are inclined to take it for granted that both the aggregate product of agriculture and agricultural output per head improved all through the Middle Ages. Other students, for example, Beveridge or Bennett, derived from the imperfectly selected data of the Bishop of Winchester's manors the impression that output per acre, and probably also per unit of seed, stayed put all through the Middle Ages. More recently other historians, including myself, have argued that output per acre tended to slump in the earlier, that is, pre-Black Death period, and may have picked up somewhat in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The concert of historians may therefore strike the ear as being even more cacophonous on this theme than on most other medieval themes.
In: The review of politics, Band 13, S. 244
ISSN: 0034-6705
In: The economic history review, Band 59, Heft 4, S. 840-841
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: The journal of economic history, Band 50, Heft 3, S. 663-668
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: The economic history review, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 681
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: Explorations in economic history: EEH, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 129-151
ISSN: 0014-4983
In: The economic history review, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 157
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: Australian economic history review: an Asia-Pacific journal of economic, business & social history, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 65-67
ISSN: 1467-8446
In: The review of politics, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 244-245
ISSN: 1748-6858
In: The journal of economic history, Band 65, Heft 2
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient: Journal d'histoire économique et sociale de l'orient, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 121-123
ISSN: 1568-5209
In: The journal of economic history, Band 47, Heft 2, S. 419-432
ISSN: 1471-6372
Output per farm worker in the northern United States and Britain in the early nineteenth century was many times that inEastern Europe or in medieval England and wages were correspondingly higher. Technical progress explains little of the high American and British productivity in the early nineteenth century, nor, in the American case, does abundant land per worker. Instead, most of the difference derived from more intense labor in America and Britain.
In: The journal of economic history, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 239-240
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: The economic history review, Band 66, Heft 2, S. 518-544
ISSN: 1468-0289
Agriculture was the largest and most important sector of the medieval English economy. Yet although peasants comprised the majority of the population, and were responsible for the greater part of land use, surprisingly little is known about peasant cropping patterns and production strategies. Taking the Crowland Abbey manor of Oakington, Cambridgeshire as a case study, this article examines peasant land use and agricultural strategies. Using data collected from the Oakington tithe accounts and manor court rolls, this article demonstrates that peasants used their land more extensively than did the lord, raising their output per acre above that of the demesne. This was driven by peasant need for fodder crops, and the strain placed on agricultural systems that required peasants to use their land to produce grains and legumes for consumption, fodder, and sale.