Description: In this series of essays on the society and economy of England between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries, fourteen contributors address many of the most important themes in an era that experienced profound change in rural, commercial, urban and industrial life. Subjects covered include the growth of London, the commercial and urban development of the north, Italian merchants and banking, overseas trade, taxation, farm servants, hunting and poaching, changing relations between landlords and tenants, the expansion of the economy in the twelfth century and the great slump of the fifteenth.
Review Quotes: "One comes away from this volume with a renewed sense of the vibrant interaction between rural and urban cultures in medieval england. This is historical research in its finest form. It should serve as a model of what medieval historical research can accomplish." Kenneth Cox, Agricultural History