Download or read book The Poll Taxes of 1377 1379 and 1381 Part 1 Bedfordshire Leicestershire written by Carolyn Fenwick and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1998-06-11 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an intriguing and detailed picture of late fourteenth century EnglandPresents complex material in a clear formatThe English poll taxes of 1377, 1379, and 1381 taxed householders, wives, dependants, and servants individually. The tax records therefore provide information about people who are rarely, if ever, mentioned in other documents - frequently including details of occupations and relationships. The widely varying documents associated with the taxes are being published in three volumes, to make this massive resource accessible to social and economic historians, demographers, and genealogists. This first volume, which covers all three taxes for Bedfordshire to Leicestershire, includes extensive editorial descriptions of the documents, explanations of the collection and recording processes, and a discussion of the relevance and value of this exciting material. Full indexes of original and contemporary place names and a glossary of occupations will appear in the third volume.Readership: Scholars and students of medieval history, economic and social historians, local historians, genealogists.
Download or read book The Poll Taxes of 1377 1379 and 1381 Part 2 Lincolnshire Westmorland written by Carolyn C. Fenwick and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-05-17 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of three volumes devoted to the poll taxes of 1377, 1379, and 1381, covering the counties of Lincolnshire to Westmorland, in which the editor has established the definitive version of the surviving documents of all three poll taxes.
Download or read book The Poll Taxes of 1377 1379 and 1381 written by Carolyn C. Fenwick and published by British Academy. This book was released on 1998 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lists of taxpayers in Wiltshire and Yorkshire ... also includes additional documents relating to counties which have had their lists published in the previous two volumes"-Foreword.
Download or read book Immigrant England 1300 1550 written by W. Mark Ormrod and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a vivid and accessible history of first-generation immigrants to England in the later Middle Ages. Accounting for upwards of two percent of the population and coming from all parts of Europe and beyond, immigrants spread out over the kingdom, settling in the countryside as well as in towns, taking work as agricultural labourers, skilled craftspeople and professionals. Often encouraged and welcomed, sometimes vilified and victimised, immigrants were always on the social and political agenda. Immigrant England is the first book to address a phenomenon and issue of vital concern to English people at the time, to their descendants living in the United Kingdom today and to all those interested in the historical dimensions of immigration policy, attitudes to ethnicity and race and concepts of Englishness and Britishness.
Download or read book Cambridge and Its Economic Region 1450 1560 written by John S. Lee and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee studies the population, wealth, trade and markets of Cambridge and its region, and the changes that took place over a century of economic and social transition are detailed.
Download or read book The Problem of Labour in Fourteenth century England written by James Bothwell and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from the Interdisciplinary Conference on the Fourteenth Century held at the University of York in July 1998.
Download or read book Sources for English Local History written by W. B. Stephens and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Church Building and Society in the Later Middle Ages written by Gabriel Byng and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic study of the financing and management of parish church construction in England in the Middle Ages.
Download or read book A Prospering Society written by John Hare and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a case study of a particular countryside and town in southern England--namely, the county of Wiltshire and the city of Salisbury--this record seeks to explore the changing nature of English society during the period from 1380 to 1520. It examines the influence of landscape and population on the agriculture of Wiltshire, the regional patterns of arable and pastoral farming, and the growing contrast between the large-scale mixed farming of the chalklands and the family farms of the claylands. Discussing how economic growth generated problems of its own, this study is the first to fully investigate Wiltshire's agriculture history during the late Middle Ages, a period recognized as one of considerable change.
Download or read book Border Liberties and Loyalties written by Matthew L. Holford and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the organisation of power and society in north-east England over two crucial centuries in the emergence of the English 'state'. England is usually regarded as medieval Europe's most centralised kingdom, yet the North-East was dominated by liberties - largely self-governing jurisdictions - that greatly restricted the English crown's direct authority in the region. These local polities receive here their first comprehensive discussion; and their histories are crucial for understanding questions of state-formation in frontier zones, regional distinctiveness, and local and national loyalties. The analysis focuses on liberties as both governmental entities and sources of socio-political and cultural identification. It also connects the development of liberties and their communities with a rich variety of forces, including the influence of the kings of Scots as lords of Tynedale, and the impact of protracted Anglo-Scottish warfare from 1296. Why did liberties enjoy such long-term relevance as governance structures? How far, and why, did the English monarchy respect their autonomous rights and status? By what means, and how successfully, were liberty identities created, sharpened and sustained? In addressing such issues, this ground-breaking study extends beyond regional history to make significant contributions to the ongoing mainstream debates about 'state', 'society', 'identity' and 'community'.
Download or read book Making a Living in the Middle Ages written by Christopher Dyer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-11 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Medieval Single Women written by Cordelia Beattie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-09-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a culture in which marriage was the desirable norm, and virginity was particularly prized in females, the categories 'virgin' and 'widow' held particular significance. This book investigates the uses of the category 'single woman'. The law gave unmarried women legal rights and responsibilities that were generally withheld from married women. The pervasiveness of religion and the law in people's day-to-day lives led to a complex interplay between moral and economic concerns in how medieval women were seen. As a result they were marked out as 'single women' in very different contexts, and his study reveals the multiplicity of ways in which dominant cultural ideas impacted on them.
Download or read book Charters and Custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey 1089 1216 written by N. E. Stacy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a critical edition of six twelfth-century surveys of the vast estates of Glastonbury Abbey, five of which are printed for the first time." "They deal with both the monastic household and the Abbot's lordship as tenant-in-chief. They throw much light on the changing methods by which he exploited the resources of his demesne manors, and provide evidence of how the services and holdings of the peasantry were affected by a rising population." "The introduction explains the contemporary context of surveys - documents which are of fundamental importance for the economic, social, and monastic history of twelfth-century England."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Soldier in Later Medieval England written by Adrian R. Bell and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the names of every soldier known to have served the English Crown from 1369 to the loss of Gascony in 1453, and seeks to investigate the different types of soldier, their regional and national origins, and movement between ranks.
Download or read book Family History Digging Deeper written by Simon Fowler and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting new addition to any family historian’s library, Family History: Digging Deeper will take your research to the next level. Joined by a team of expert genealogists, Simon Fowler covers a range of topics and provides clear advice for the intermediate genealogist. Helping you push back the barriers, this book details how to utilise the internet in your research and suggests some unusual archives and records which might just transform your research. It will teach you about genealogical traditions, variants of family history around the world and even the abuse of genealogy by the Nazis. It will help you understand current developments in DNA testing, new resources and digitised online material. Problem-solving sections are also included to help tackle common difficulties and provide answers to the brick walls often reached when researching one’s ancestors. If you want to dig deeper into your family tree and the huge array of records available, then this book is for you.
Download or read book Castleton A History written by Liam Clarke and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating new look at the history of this town in Derbyshire.
Download or read book Fourteenth Century England IV written by J. S. Hamilton and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series provides a forum for the most recent research into the political, social and ecclesiastical history of the 14th century.
