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Making a living in the middle ages : the people of Britain 850-1520 /

"In this survey, Christopher Dyer reviews our thinking about the economy of Britain in the middle ages. By analysing economic development and change, he allows us to reconstruct, often vividly, the daily lives and experiences of people in the past. The period covered here saw dramatic alteratio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dyer, Christopher, 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2002.
Colección:New economic history of Britain.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"In this survey, Christopher Dyer reviews our thinking about the economy of Britain in the middle ages. By analysing economic development and change, he allows us to reconstruct, often vividly, the daily lives and experiences of people in the past. The period covered here saw dramatic alterations in the state of the economy; and this account begins with the forming of villages, towns, networks of exchange and the social hierarchy in the ninth and tenth centuries, and ends with the inflation and population rise of the sixteenth century." "This is a book about ideas and attitudes as well as the material world, and Dyer shows how people regarded the economy and how they responded to economic change. We see the growth of towns, the clearance of woods and wastes, the Great Famine, the Black Death and the upheavals in the fifteenth century through the eyes of those who lived through these great events."--Jacket.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 403 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-389) and index.
ISBN:9780300167078
0300167075