Synopses & Reviews
Review
"This book by Bruce M.S. Campbell is a landmark in the economic history of medieval England. Its scope, detail, and accuracy have no previous parallels." American Historical Review
Synopsis
This is the first single-authored treatment of medieval English agriculture at a national scale. It deals comprehensively with cultivation carried out by landowners on their demesne farms. Methodologically innovative, the book provides a framework and context for all future scholarship on the medieval and early agrarian economies.
Table of Contents
'List of figures; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: agriculture and the late-medieval English economy; 2. Sources, databases and typologies; 3. The scale and composition of the seigniorial sector; 4. Seigniorial pastoral production; 5. Seigniorial arable production; 6. Crop specialisation and cropping systems; 7. Arable productivity; 8. Grain output and population: a conundrum; 9. Adapting to change: English seigniorial agriculture, 1250 1450; Appendices; Consolidated bibliography; Index.\n
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