Essays on medieval agriculture and general problems of the medieval economy
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| Author / Creator: | Postan, M. M. (Michael Moïssey), 1899-1981. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [England] University Press, 1973. |
| Description: | 302 pages 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1984688 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I. General
- 1. The economic foundations of medieval economy
- 2. The rise of a money economy
- 3. The fifteenth century
- 4. Some social consequences of the Hundred Years War
- 5. The costs of the Hundred Years War
- 6. Why was science backward in the Middle Ages?
- Part II. Agrarian
- 7. The chronology of labour services
- 8. The charters of the villeins
- 9. Heriots and prices on Winchester manors with statistical notes on Winchester heriots
- 10. Some agrarian evidence of a declining population in the later Middle Ages
- 11. Village livestock in the thirteenth century
- 12. Glastonbury estates in the twelfth century
- 13. Legal status and economic condition in medieval villages
- Index