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Author Dyer, Christopher, 1944-

Title Everyday life in medieval England / Christopher Dyer
Published London ; New York : Hambledon and London, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 336 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Tables; Preface; Introduction; 1 Power and Conflict in the Medieval English Village; 2 'The Retreat from Marginal Land': The Growth and Decline of Medieval Rural Settlements; 3 Deserted Medieval Villages in the West Midlands; 4 Dispersed Settlements in Medieval England: A Case Study of Pendock, Worcestershire; 5 Changes in Diet in the Late Middle Ages: The Case of Harvest Workers; 6 The Consumption of Freshwater Fish in Medieval England; 7 Gardens and Orchards in Medieval England; 8 English Peasant Buildings in the Later Middle Ages (1200-1500)
9 Wages and Earnings in Late Medieval England: Evidence from the Enforcement of the Labour Laws10 The Social and Economic Background to the Rural Revolt of 1381; 11 The Rising of 1381 in Suffolk: Its Origins and Participants; 12 Towns and Cottages in Eleventh-Century England; 13 The Consumer and the Market in the Later Middle Ages; 14 The Hidden Trade of the Middle Ages: Evidence from the West Midlands; 15 Were there any Capitalists in Fifteenth-Century England?; Index
Summary "Everyday Life in Medieval England captures the day-to-day experience of people in the middle ages - the houses and settlements in which they lived, the food they ate, their getting and spending - and their social relationships. The picture that emerges is of great variety, of constant change, of movement and of enterprise. Many people were downtrodden and miserably poor, but they struggled against their circumstances, resisting oppressive authorities, to build their own way of life and to improve their material conditions. The ordinary men and women of the middle ages appear throughout. Everyday Life in Medieval England is an outstanding contribution to both national and local history."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Notes "First published 1994"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500.
HISTORY.
Manners and customs
Social conditions
Social history -- Medieval
SUBJECT England -- Social life and customs -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043320
Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056740
England -- Social conditions -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043312
Subject England
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780826419828
0826419828
9781472599407
1472599403
9786612024689
6612024682
9781852851125
1852851120
0755695259
9780755695256