Making a Living in the Middle Ages

The People of Britain 850–1520

Bibliographic Data

ID23139602
AuthorsChristopher Dyer (0000-0003-1651-5511, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages424
Publication date2017-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMaking a Living in the Middle Ages (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherYale University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.12987/9780300167078
OpenAlexW3021009775
Open LibraryOL29280418M
ISBN9780300167078
LanguageEN
Citations received13

Dramatic social and economic change during the middle ages altered the lives of the people of Britain in far-reaching ways, from the structure of their families to the ways they made their livings. In this masterly book, preeminent medieval historian Christopher Dyer presents a fresh view of the British economy from the ninth to the sixteenth century and a vivid new account of medieval life. He begins his volume with the formation of towns and villages in the ninth and tenth centuries and ends with the inflation, population rise, and colonial expansion 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 responded to economic change. He examines the growth of towns, the clearing of lands, the Great Famine, the Black Death, and the upheavals of the fifteenth century through the eyes of those who experienced them. He also explores the dilemmas and decisions of those who were making a living in a changing world from peasants, artisans, and wage earners to barons and monks. Drawing on archaeological and landscape evidence along with more conventional archives and records, the author offers here an engaging survey of British medieval economic history unrivaled in breadth and clarity.

Geography · History · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · 1066-1485 · Cities and towns · Classes sociales · Economic conditions · Economic history · Economische ontwikkeling · Economische situatie · England · Great britain · Industrie · Industries · Levensonderhoud · Medieval period · Middle ages · Population · Scotland · Social change · Social classes · Social conditions · To 1500 · Travailleurs · Villes médiévales · wales · Working class