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Book Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516

Download or read book Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516 written by Samantha Letters and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalogue of the markets and fairs in England and Wales between c.900 and 1516. The English section is arranged by county (as these were arranged on the eve of the 1974 county boundary changes) and then by place in alphabetical order. The Welsh section is arranged simply by place in alphabetical order.

Book The Economy of Medieval Wales  1067 1536

Download or read book The Economy of Medieval Wales 1067 1536 written by Matthew Frank Stevens and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys the economy of Wales from the first Norman intrusions of 1067 to the Act of Union of England and Wales in 1536. Key themes include the evolution of the agrarian economy; the foundation and growth of towns; the adoption of a money economy; English colonisation and economic exploitation; the collapse of Welsh social structures and rise of economic individualism; the disastrous effect of the Glyndŵr rebellion; and, ultimately, the alignment of the Welsh economy to the English economy. Comprising four chapters, a narrative history is presented of the economic history of Wales, 1067–1536, and the final chapter tests the applicability in a Welsh context of the main theoretical frameworks that have been developed to explain long-term economic and social change in medieval Britain and Europe.

Book The History of Radway

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  • Author : William Brook
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1446193292
  • Pages : 133 pages

Download or read book The History of Radway written by William Brook and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Compassionate Capitalism

Download or read book Compassionate Capitalism written by Catherine Casson and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may seem like a recent trend, but businesses have been practising compassionate capitalism for nearly a thousand years. Based on the newly discovered historical documents on Cambridge’s sophisticated urban property market during the Commercial Revolution in the thirteenth century, this book explores how successful entrepreneurs employed the wealth they had accumulated to the benefit of the community. Cutting across disciplines, from economic and business history to entrepreneurship, philanthropy and medieval studies, this outstanding volume presents an invaluable contribution to our knowledge of the early phases of capitalism. A companion book, The Cambridge Hundred Rolls Sources Volume, replacing the previous incomplete and inaccurate transcription by the Record Commission of 1818, is also available from Bristol University Press.

Book Cornwall  Connectivity and Identity in the Fourteenth Century

Download or read book Cornwall Connectivity and Identity in the Fourteenth Century written by S. J. Drake and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The links between Cornwall, a county frequently considered remote and separate in the Middle Ages, and the wider realm of England are newly discussed. Winner of The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies (FOCS) Holyer an Gof Cup for non-fiction, 2020. Stretching out into the wild Atlantic, fourteenth-century Cornwall was a land at the very ends of the earth. Within itsboundaries many believed that King Arthur was a real-life historical Cornishman and that their natal shire had once been the home of mighty giants. Yet, if the county was both unusual and remarkable, it still held an integral place in the wider realm of England. Drawing on a wide range of published and archival material, this book seeks to show how Cornwall remained strikingly distinctive while still forming part of the kingdom. It argues that myths, saints, government, and lordship all endowed the name and notion of Cornwall with authority in the minds of its inhabitants, forging these people into a commonalty. At the same time, the earldom-duchy and the Crown together helped to link the county into the politics of England at large. With thousands of Cornishmen and women drawn east of the Tamar by the needs of the Crown, warfare, lordship, commerce, the law, the Church, and maritime interests, connectivity with the wider realm emerges as a potent integrative force. Supported by a cast of characters ranging from vicious pirates and gentlemen-criminals through to the Black Prince, the volume sets Cornwall in the latest debates about centralisation, devolution, and collective identity, about the nature of Cornishness and Englishness themselves. S.J. DRAKE is a Research Associate at the Institute of Historical Research. He was born and brought up in Cornwall.

Book A Country Merchant  1495 1520

Download or read book A Country Merchant 1495 1520 written by Christopher Dyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 1500 England's society and economy had reached a turning point. After a long period of slow change and even stagnation, an age of innovation and initiative was in motion, with enclosure, voyages of discovery, and new technologies. It was an age of fierce controversy, in which the government was fearful of beggars and wary of rebellions. The 'commonwealth' writers such as Thomas More were sharply critical of the greed of profit hungry landlords who dispossessed the poor. This book is about a wool merchant and large scale farmer who epitomises in many ways the spirit of the period. John Heritage kept an account book, from which we can reconstruct a whole society in the vicinity of Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. He took part in the removal of a village which stood in the way of agricultural 'improvement', ran a large scale sheep farm, and as a 'woolman' spent much time travelling around the countryside meeting with gentry, farmers, and peasants in order to buy their wool. He sold the fleeces he produced and those he gathered to London merchants who exported through Calais to the textile towns of Flanders. The wool growers named in the book can be studied in their native villages, and their lives can be reconstructed in the round, interacting in their communities, adapting their farming to new circumstances, and arranging the building of their local churches. A Country Merchant has some of the characteristics of a biography, is part family history, and part local history, with some landscape history. Dyer explores themes in economic and social history without neglecting the religious and cultural background. His central concerns are to demonstrate the importance of commerce in the period, and to show the contribution of peasants to a changing economy.

Book Medieval Suffolk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Bailey
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Release : 2010-02-18
  • ISBN : 1843835290
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Medieval Suffolk written by Mark Bailey and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Mark Bailey provides a comprehensive survey of the economy and society of late medieval Suffolk.

Book THE GREAT NORFOLK ROADS SHAME A Report by

Download or read book THE GREAT NORFOLK ROADS SHAME A Report by written by Christopher Hewitt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the full colour version of a detailed and intensively researched technical report that literally rewrites the local history of a substantial area of Norfolk, with over 80 original illustrations dealing with elements of past and present vehicular highway law in England and Wales and its specific application to the locality. It examines some of the responsibilities of a highway authority and several of the shortcomings of the Norfolk Highway Authority in particular. Highlighted is a number of the resultant 'lost', obstructed but still legally active ancient routes in, around and through the Halvergate marshes including its immediate environs within south east Norfolk. The report concludes with specific recommendations made in the light of recent changes in the law that are intended to generate public consideration and discussion.

Book Blood  Faith and Iron  A dynasty of Catholic industrialists in sixteenth  and seventeenth century England

Download or read book Blood Faith and Iron A dynasty of Catholic industrialists in sixteenth and seventeenth century England written by Paul Belford and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ironbridge Gorge is presented as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and so part of a national narrative of heroic Protestant individualism. However this is not the full story. This book asserts that this industrial landscape was, in fact, created by an entrepreneurial Catholic dynasty over 200 years before the Iron Bridge was built.

Book The Good Women of the Parish

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katherine L. French
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0812240537
  • Pages : 351 pages

Download or read book The Good Women of the Parish written by Katherine L. French and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French argues that medieval laywomen both coped with the chaotic changes following the plague and justified their own changing behavior by participating in local religion. Through active engagement in the parish church, the basic unit of public worship, women promoted and validated their own interests and responsibilities.

Book Twin Cities across Five Continents

Download or read book Twin Cities across Five Continents written by Ekaterina Mikhailova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This international collection provides a comprehensive overview of twin cities in different circumstances – from the emergent to the recently amalgamated, on 'soft' and 'hard' borders, with post-colonial heritage, in post-conflict environments and under strain. With examples from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, South America, North America and the Caribbean, the volume sees twin cities as intense thermometers for developments in the wider urban world globally. It offers interdisciplinary perspectives that bridge history, politics, culture, economy, geography and other fields, applying these lenses to examples of twin cities in remote places. Providing a comparative approach and drawing on a range of methodologies, the book explores where and how twin cities arise; what twin cities can tell us about international borders; and the way in which some twin cities bear the spatial marks of their colonial past. The chapters explore the impact on twin-city relations of contemporary pressures, such as mass migration, the rise of populism, East-West tensions, international crime, surveillance, rebordering trends and epidemiological risks triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. With case studies across the continents, this volume for the first time extends twin-city debates to fictional imaginings of twin cities. Twin Cities across Five Continents is a valuable resource for researchers in the fields of anthropology, history, geography, urban studies, border studies, international relations and global development as well as for students in these disciplines.

Book The Great Transition

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bruce M. S. Campbell
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2016-06-23
  • ISBN : 1316571483
  • Pages : 491 pages

Download or read book The Great Transition written by Bruce M. S. Campbell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes in the trajectory of long-established historical trends. Transcontinental networks of exchange fractured and an era of economic contraction and demographic decline dawned from which Latin Christendom would not begin to emerge until its voyages of discovery at the end of the fifteenth century. In a major new study of this 'Great Transition', Bruce Campbell assesses the contributions of commercial recession, war, climate change, and eruption of the Black Death to a far-reaching reversal of fortunes from which no part of Eurasia was spared. The book synthesises a wealth of new historical, palaeo-ecological and biological evidence, including estimates of national income, reconstructions of past climates, and genetic analysis of DNA extracted from the teeth of plague victims, to provide a fresh account of the creation, collapse and realignment of Western Europe's late medieval commercial economy.

Book BARON JOHN MALTRAVERS 1290   1364    A WISE KNIGHT IN WAR AND PEACE    AND HIS FOREBEARS AND DESCENDANTS 1066   1435

Download or read book BARON JOHN MALTRAVERS 1290 1364 A WISE KNIGHT IN WAR AND PEACE AND HIS FOREBEARS AND DESCENDANTS 1066 1435 written by Caroleen McClure and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Baron John Maltravers led an extraordinary life. Knighted at the age of sixteen, he was taken prisoner at Bannockburn a few years later. As an associate of Roger Mortimer, he was a jailer of the deposed Edward II. On the fall of Mortimer, Maltravers was tried for treason and sentenced to death, but he had already fled abroad. His involuntary exile continued for twenty years. No attempt was made to capture him or to bring him to justice. By the time he returned to England, his only son had died in the Black Death, and Baron John’s heirs were his two granddaughters. His surviving granddaughter, Eleanor, married into the noble Arundel family, and by a quirk of fate her descendants became Earls of Arundel, as well as Barons Maltravers, titles which are borne by their descendant, the Duke of Norfolk, to this day. This fascinating history contains references to both published and unpublished sources, setting the lives of the Maltraverses in the context of national events. Illustrated with maps, photographs and family trees, the book provides readers with a detailed account of life in these turbulent times.

Book King John and Religion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Webster
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 1783270292
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book King John and Religion written by Paul Webster and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the personal religion of King John, presenting a more complex picture of his actions and attitude.

Book The History and Origins of the surname Threston

Download or read book The History and Origins of the surname Threston written by Roger McHugh and published by Roger McHugh. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and origins of the surname Threston. Researched for over three years by professional genealogists Roger McHugh of Kent, England, and, Amy Lynn, Ph.D. of Salt Lake City, UT. Not only does the book give facts about the Threston surname, it also provides extremely interesting historical tidbits. The Thresten/Threston family not only to proved to be one of the oldest families the team of McHugh and Lynn ever traced, but, also one of the more historically significant families that never received due credit. Their findings include a family member who was a Knight's Templar, and, facts such as the family was once of nobility status, and, family members are related to people such as Sir Winston Churchill, Princess Diana, Prince Charles and, the Lewknor family who at one time owned Bodiam Castle which is still in existence today.

Book The Book of Pears

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joan Morgan
  • Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 1603586660
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book The Book of Pears written by Joan Morgan and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in the United Kingdom by Ebury Press in 2015."--Title page verso.