Some Livestock Price Movements in Thirteenth-Century England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3405598 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D L Farmer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 1969-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0117 • E-ISSN: 1468-0289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2591942 |
| OpenAlex | W4239932035, W1978773682 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 6 |
T | THE manorial accounts of the thirteenth century, notably the great Winchester Pipe Rolls, provide voluminous information on livestock prices, no less than on grain prices.' While, in general, livestock prices moved in sympathy with the long-term movements of grain prices, the discrepancies are significant enough to justify a separate examination. In this article I shall consider the fluctuations in the purchase and sale prices of the major adult animals -oxen, ploughand cart-horses, cows, muttons, and ewes and also, for comparison, the prices at which wheat, cheese, and pigs, specifically produced for food, were sold
Agricultural economics · Economics · Geography · Livestock · Political science · Forestry · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1978 - 2016 (39) |
| Highly cited | No |