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Age of Transition?: Economy and Society in England in the Later Middle Ages

By Christopher Dyer

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2007
ISBN
9780199215263, 019921526X
Open Library ID
OL19681954M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3440581 bytes)
Series
Ford Lectures
Pages
304\304
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-11-09 02:42:13

Description

Christopher Dyer examines the transition in the economy and society of England between 1250 and 1550. Using new sources of evidence, he demonstrates that important structural changes after 1350 built on the commercial growth of the thirteenth century. He shows that development of individual property, response to new consumption patterns, and use of credit and investment, came from the peasantry rather than the aristocracy. An Age of Transition?, a significant new work by a top medievalist, reveals how England was set on course to become the 'first industrial nation'.

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