Chris Briggs
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3681014 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Chris Briggs |
| NOMBRES | Chris |
| APELLIDO | Briggs |
| FIRMA | BRIGGS C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1470-9358 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
First Nations People and Energy Transition
Training and employment will be a key determinant of whether the socio-economic position of First Nations peoples is improved through the energy transition, but there are few studies on how to increase First Nations employment in renewable energy. Our study, which focusses on Renewable Energy Zones in Australia, has four key findings. Firstly, employment and training mandates and incentives in government renewable energy auctions can increase Fir…
Current trends and future directions in the rural history of later medieval England (c. 1200–c. 1500)
This article surveys a range of work on the later medieval English countryside published since 2000, and offers some predictions and suggestions about future research. It shows that the field of ‘rural history’ has rarely been closely defined, and indeed has tended to be treated as a broad church that can accommodate many different kinds of approach, themselves drawing on a variety of disciplinary traditions. The article identifies and discusses …
After the Black Death
What were the effects of the Black Death of 1348–9 and subsequent outbreaks of epidemic disease on economy and society? This classic question lies at the heart of Mark Bailey’s new study, which represents the author’s 2019 James Ford Lectures in the University of Oxford skilfully reworked into a substantial and scintillating book. One might be forgiven for doubting whether a genuinely fresh take on such a well-trodden topic was possible. Yet Bail…
Living Standards and Material Culture in English Rural Households 1300-1600. Data Paper
The data in the related digital archive was collected to examine the archaeological and historical evidence for material culture in English medieval rural households, with the aim of gaining a fuller picture than what might be attainable by looking only at objects or documents in isolation. The digital archive provides a starting point for anyone wishing to research aspects of medieval rural settlement
The Evolution of Manor Courts in Medieval England, c. 1250–1350
Manor courts held by landlords for their tenants and other local people existed in their thousands across medieval England. Debate persists concerning the character of these institutions during their heyday in the decades before 1350. This article uses a new database containing hundreds of manorial personal actions – lawsuits which treated areas roughly equivalent to modern tort and contract law – to explore the work of the manor courts, and to r…
People, possessions and domestic space in the late medieval escheators’ records
The medieval English escheator was a royal official who seized the goods and chattels of felons, fugitives and outlaws for the crown’s benefit. This article uses escheators’ inquests and accounts to ask what information exists about the location of forfeited possessions at the point of their appraisal by the escheator, and what is revealed about the use of space in the houses and outbuildings of lower status people? We also ask more general quest…
Pamela Nightingale, Enterprise, money and credit in England before the Black Death 1285–1349 (Cham, Switzerland
Pamela Nightingale, Enterprise, money and credit in England before the Black Death 1285–1349 (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Pages xviii + 382, including tables 12 + figures 3. £89.99 hardback. - Volume 34 Issue 2
Land and Credit
Thirty years of Continuity and Change
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The Decline of Serfdom in Late Medieval England
The disappearance of medieval serfdom or villeinage between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries is a central topic in any serious discussion of England’s long-term development. Yet although Bailey’s is a classic subject, it is also one that has often been badly served and neglected by recent scholars. There has been no general survey of the decline of serfdom in medieval England since R.H. Hilton’s sixty-page 1968 pamphlet of that title. Those…
Exploring Text and Objects
A study was undertaken to assess the potential of the integrated analysis of metalwork excavated from medieval (late 13th–16th-century) rural settlements in the midlands of England and inventories (dating from c 1370–c 1440) drawn from the royal escheators’ records for the same region. The study aimed to explore the value and meaning of objects to the non-elite members of rural communities and focussed on three classes of artefact: metal vessels,…
Introduction
Private contracts of many different kinds were at the heart of the rural economy in medieval and early modern Europe. This article considers some of the key issues involved in the study of those contracts, and of the institutions that facilitated their registration and enforcement. Drawing on examples from medieval England as well as the articles in this special issue of the journal, it is argued that complex and effective ‘public-order’ structur…
Christopher Dyer. A Country Merchant, 1495–1520
Journal Article Christopher Dyer. A Country Merchant, 1495–1520: Trading and Farming at the End of the Middle Ages. Get access Christopher Dyer. A Country Merchant, 1495–1520: Trading and Farming at the End of the Middle Ages. New York: Oxford University Press. 2012. Pp. xiii, 256. $125.00. Chris Briggs Chris Briggs Selwyn College, University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Histor…
CAN'T Pay" And "WON'T Pay" In the Medieval Village
What happens when a debtor does not pay back what he or she owes? As Margaret Atwood's chapter on "The Shadow Side" shows, the unpaid debt-in the broadest sense-is a recurring theme of history and literature. This review essay looks at the fourteenth-century village, a world which, perhaps contrary to expectations, turns out to have been characterized by a large number of outstanding interpersonal debts of money and goods. We know about these deb…
Physical anthropology of skeletal remains from 2nd to 6th century AD Samtavro in the Republic of Georgia
Land and People in Late Medieval England
Book Review| October 01 2010 Land and People in Late Medieval England Land and People in Late Medieval England. Bruce M. S. Campbell. Chris Briggs Chris Briggs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 543–544. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.4.543 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Chris Briggs; Land and People in Late Medieval England. Agricultural Hi…
Anti-unionism, Employer Strategy, and the Australian State, 1996–2005
One of the outstanding features of contemporary Australian industrial relations has been the dramatic growth in employer de-collectivization strategies. Four dimensions of employer strategies, sometimes interlinked and overlapping, are identified and analyzed in this article—employer lockouts, individualization of bargaining, counters to organizing campaigns, and the use of human resource initiatives in areas such as recruitment and selection. Wh…
Seigniorial control of villagers litigation beyond the manor in later medieval England
Medieval villagers were assiduous users of legal structures in defence of private interests. To enforce contracts against and recover debts from residents of other villages, rural plaintiffs had to prosecute in courts situated beyond the boundaries of their ‘home’ manors. The ability to sue elsewhere than the local manor court was thus crucial to commercial development in the countryside. This article explores the obstacles to such litigation, ch…
Manor Court Procedures, Debt Litigation Levels, and Rural Credit Provision in England, c.1290—c.1380
In the last two decades or so, questions of law have moved back to the top of the research agenda in work on medieval English manor courts. This marks a shift away from the 1960s to the mid-1980s, when the historians on both sides of the Atlantic who established the court roll as the pre-eminent source for everyday life in the countryside sought inspiration from the social sciences rather than legal history. The court roll studies published in th…
The Return of Lockouts Down Under in Comparative Perspective
Virtually unheard of since the Great Depression, lockouts have reemerged strongly in Australia and New Zealand just as they have all but disappeared in Germany. The decline of lockouts in Germany is convincingly attributed to the enhanced vulnerability of firms to stoppages in certain circumstances amid globalization, but the small, open economies of Australia and New Zealand are equally subject to these pressures. Using macro-and micro-level dat…
Decision-making in medieval agriculture - David Stone
Taxation, warfare, and the early fourteenth century 'crisis' in the north
Recent research into the impact of Anglo-Scottish conflict on northern England's economy has become increasingly sophisticated, using local estate accounts to enhance understanding of the role of war in the 'crisis' of the early fourteenth century. Yet taxation data also remains an important source on these issues, not least because of its wide geographical coverage. Using a rich series of lay subsidy documents for Cumberland, this article conclu…
Empowered or marginalized? Rural women and credit in later thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England
Recent research on both contemporary and historical societies argues for the importance of women's independent access to credit as a positive force for empowerment of the women concerned and for wider economic development. This article investigates this issue for rural England between c.1290 and c.1380 using debt litigation records from two well-documented manor courts. The article concludes that involvement in credit networks brought little fema…
Exploring Text and Objects
A study was undertaken to assess the potential of the integrated analysis of metalwork excavated from medieval (late 13th–16th-century) rural settlements in the midlands of England and inventories (dating from c 1370–c 1440) drawn from the royal escheators’ records for the same region. The study aimed to explore the value and meaning of objects to the non-elite members of rural communities and focussed on three classes of artefact: metal vessels,…
People, possessions and domestic space in the late medieval escheators’ records
The medieval English escheator was a royal official who seized the goods and chattels of felons, fugitives and outlaws for the crown’s benefit. This article uses escheators’ inquests and accounts to ask what information exists about the location of forfeited possessions at the point of their appraisal by the escheator, and what is revealed about the use of space in the houses and outbuildings of lower status people? We also ask more general quest…
Anti-unionism, Employer Strategy, and the Australian State, 1996–2005
One of the outstanding features of contemporary Australian industrial relations has been the dramatic growth in employer de-collectivization strategies. Four dimensions of employer strategies, sometimes interlinked and overlapping, are identified and analyzed in this article—employer lockouts, individualization of bargaining, counters to organizing campaigns, and the use of human resource initiatives in areas such as recruitment and selection. Wh…
Taxation, warfare, and the early fourteenth century 'crisis' in the north
Recent research into the impact of Anglo-Scottish conflict on northern England's economy has become increasingly sophisticated, using local estate accounts to enhance understanding of the role of war in the 'crisis' of the early fourteenth century. Yet taxation data also remains an important source on these issues, not least because of its wide geographical coverage. Using a rich series of lay subsidy documents for Cumberland, this article conclu…
The Return of Lockouts Down Under in Comparative Perspective
Virtually unheard of since the Great Depression, lockouts have reemerged strongly in Australia and New Zealand just as they have all but disappeared in Germany. The decline of lockouts in Germany is convincingly attributed to the enhanced vulnerability of firms to stoppages in certain circumstances amid globalization, but the small, open economies of Australia and New Zealand are equally subject to these pressures. Using macro-and micro-level dat…
Empowered or marginalized? Rural women and credit in later thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England
Recent research on both contemporary and historical societies argues for the importance of women's independent access to credit as a positive force for empowerment of the women concerned and for wider economic development. This article investigates this issue for rural England between c.1290 and c.1380 using debt litigation records from two well-documented manor courts. The article concludes that involvement in credit networks brought little fema…
Current trends and future directions in the rural history of later medieval England (c. 1200–c. 1500)
This article surveys a range of work on the later medieval English countryside published since 2000, and offers some predictions and suggestions about future research. It shows that the field of ‘rural history’ has rarely been closely defined, and indeed has tended to be treated as a broad church that can accommodate many different kinds of approach, themselves drawing on a variety of disciplinary traditions. The article identifies and discusses …
Living Standards and Material Culture in English Rural Households 1300-1600. Data Paper
The data in the related digital archive was collected to examine the archaeological and historical evidence for material culture in English medieval rural households, with the aim of gaining a fuller picture than what might be attainable by looking only at objects or documents in isolation. The digital archive provides a starting point for anyone wishing to research aspects of medieval rural settlement
The Evolution of Manor Courts in Medieval England, c. 1250–1350
Manor courts held by landlords for their tenants and other local people existed in their thousands across medieval England. Debate persists concerning the character of these institutions during their heyday in the decades before 1350. This article uses a new database containing hundreds of manorial personal actions – lawsuits which treated areas roughly equivalent to modern tort and contract law – to explore the work of the manor courts, and to r…
Introduction
Private contracts of many different kinds were at the heart of the rural economy in medieval and early modern Europe. This article considers some of the key issues involved in the study of those contracts, and of the institutions that facilitated their registration and enforcement. Drawing on examples from medieval England as well as the articles in this special issue of the journal, it is argued that complex and effective ‘public-order’ structur…
Empowered or marginalized? Rural women and credit in later thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England
Recent research on both contemporary and historical societies argues for the importance of women's independent access to credit as a positive force for empowerment of the women concerned and for wider economic development. This article investigates this issue for rural England between c.1290 and c.1380 using debt litigation records from two well-documented manor courts. The article concludes that involvement in credit networks brought little fema…
Taxation, warfare, and the early fourteenth century 'crisis' in the north
Recent research into the impact of Anglo-Scottish conflict on northern England's economy has become increasingly sophisticated, using local estate accounts to enhance understanding of the role of war in the 'crisis' of the early fourteenth century. Yet taxation data also remains an important source on these issues, not least because of its wide geographical coverage. Using a rich series of lay subsidy documents for Cumberland, this article conclu…
Manor Court Procedures, Debt Litigation Levels, and Rural Credit Provision in England, c.1290—c.1380
In the last two decades or so, questions of law have moved back to the top of the research agenda in work on medieval English manor courts. This marks a shift away from the 1960s to the mid-1980s, when the historians on both sides of the Atlantic who established the court roll as the pre-eminent source for everyday life in the countryside sought inspiration from the social sciences rather than legal history. The court roll studies published in th…
The Return of Lockouts Down Under in Comparative Perspective
Virtually unheard of since the Great Depression, lockouts have reemerged strongly in Australia and New Zealand just as they have all but disappeared in Germany. The decline of lockouts in Germany is convincingly attributed to the enhanced vulnerability of firms to stoppages in certain circumstances amid globalization, but the small, open economies of Australia and New Zealand are equally subject to these pressures. Using macro-and micro-level dat…
Decision-making in medieval agriculture - David Stone
Seigniorial control of villagers litigation beyond the manor in later medieval England
Medieval villagers were assiduous users of legal structures in defence of private interests. To enforce contracts against and recover debts from residents of other villages, rural plaintiffs had to prosecute in courts situated beyond the boundaries of their ‘home’ manors. The ability to sue elsewhere than the local manor court was thus crucial to commercial development in the countryside. This article explores the obstacles to such litigation, ch…
Anti-unionism, Employer Strategy, and the Australian State, 1996–2005
One of the outstanding features of contemporary Australian industrial relations has been the dramatic growth in employer de-collectivization strategies. Four dimensions of employer strategies, sometimes interlinked and overlapping, are identified and analyzed in this article—employer lockouts, individualization of bargaining, counters to organizing campaigns, and the use of human resource initiatives in areas such as recruitment and selection. Wh…
Physical anthropology of skeletal remains from 2nd to 6th century AD Samtavro in the Republic of Georgia
Land and People in Late Medieval England
Book Review| October 01 2010 Land and People in Late Medieval England Land and People in Late Medieval England. Bruce M. S. Campbell. Chris Briggs Chris Briggs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 543–544. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.4.543 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Chris Briggs; Land and People in Late Medieval England. Agricultural Hi…
CAN'T Pay" And "WON'T Pay" In the Medieval Village
What happens when a debtor does not pay back what he or she owes? As Margaret Atwood's chapter on "The Shadow Side" shows, the unpaid debt-in the broadest sense-is a recurring theme of history and literature. This review essay looks at the fourteenth-century village, a world which, perhaps contrary to expectations, turns out to have been characterized by a large number of outstanding interpersonal debts of money and goods. We know about these deb…
Introduction
Private contracts of many different kinds were at the heart of the rural economy in medieval and early modern Europe. This article considers some of the key issues involved in the study of those contracts, and of the institutions that facilitated their registration and enforcement. Drawing on examples from medieval England as well as the articles in this special issue of the journal, it is argued that complex and effective ‘public-order’ structur…
Christopher Dyer. A Country Merchant, 1495–1520
Journal Article Christopher Dyer. A Country Merchant, 1495–1520: Trading and Farming at the End of the Middle Ages. Get access Christopher Dyer. A Country Merchant, 1495–1520: Trading and Farming at the End of the Middle Ages. New York: Oxford University Press. 2012. Pp. xiii, 256. $125.00. Chris Briggs Chris Briggs Selwyn College, University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Histor…
Thirty years of Continuity and Change
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Decline of Serfdom in Late Medieval England
The disappearance of medieval serfdom or villeinage between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries is a central topic in any serious discussion of England’s long-term development. Yet although Bailey’s is a classic subject, it is also one that has often been badly served and neglected by recent scholars. There has been no general survey of the decline of serfdom in medieval England since R.H. Hilton’s sixty-page 1968 pamphlet of that title. Those…
Exploring Text and Objects
A study was undertaken to assess the potential of the integrated analysis of metalwork excavated from medieval (late 13th–16th-century) rural settlements in the midlands of England and inventories (dating from c 1370–c 1440) drawn from the royal escheators’ records for the same region. The study aimed to explore the value and meaning of objects to the non-elite members of rural communities and focussed on three classes of artefact: metal vessels,…
Land and Credit
People, possessions and domestic space in the late medieval escheators’ records
The medieval English escheator was a royal official who seized the goods and chattels of felons, fugitives and outlaws for the crown’s benefit. This article uses escheators’ inquests and accounts to ask what information exists about the location of forfeited possessions at the point of their appraisal by the escheator, and what is revealed about the use of space in the houses and outbuildings of lower status people? We also ask more general quest…
Pamela Nightingale, Enterprise, money and credit in England before the Black Death 1285–1349 (Cham, Switzerland
Pamela Nightingale, Enterprise, money and credit in England before the Black Death 1285–1349 (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Pages xviii + 382, including tables 12 + figures 3. £89.99 hardback. - Volume 34 Issue 2
The Evolution of Manor Courts in Medieval England, c. 1250–1350
Manor courts held by landlords for their tenants and other local people existed in their thousands across medieval England. Debate persists concerning the character of these institutions during their heyday in the decades before 1350. This article uses a new database containing hundreds of manorial personal actions – lawsuits which treated areas roughly equivalent to modern tort and contract law – to explore the work of the manor courts, and to r…
Living Standards and Material Culture in English Rural Households 1300-1600. Data Paper
The data in the related digital archive was collected to examine the archaeological and historical evidence for material culture in English medieval rural households, with the aim of gaining a fuller picture than what might be attainable by looking only at objects or documents in isolation. The digital archive provides a starting point for anyone wishing to research aspects of medieval rural settlement
After the Black Death
What were the effects of the Black Death of 1348–9 and subsequent outbreaks of epidemic disease on economy and society? This classic question lies at the heart of Mark Bailey’s new study, which represents the author’s 2019 James Ford Lectures in the University of Oxford skilfully reworked into a substantial and scintillating book. One might be forgiven for doubting whether a genuinely fresh take on such a well-trodden topic was possible. Yet Bail…
Current trends and future directions in the rural history of later medieval England (c. 1200–c. 1500)
This article surveys a range of work on the later medieval English countryside published since 2000, and offers some predictions and suggestions about future research. It shows that the field of ‘rural history’ has rarely been closely defined, and indeed has tended to be treated as a broad church that can accommodate many different kinds of approach, themselves drawing on a variety of disciplinary traditions. The article identifies and discusses …
First Nations People and Energy Transition
Training and employment will be a key determinant of whether the socio-economic position of First Nations peoples is improved through the energy transition, but there are few studies on how to increase First Nations employment in renewable energy. Our study, which focusses on Renewable Energy Zones in Australia, has four key findings. Firstly, employment and training mandates and incentives in government renewable energy auctions can increase Fir…
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