English Society in the Later Middle Ages
Title | English Society in the Later Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | S.H. Rigby |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 416 |
Release | 1995-05-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1349239690 |
What was the social structure of England in the period 1200 to 1500? What were the basic forms of social inequality? To what extent did such divisions generate social conflict? How significantly did English society change during this period and what were the causes of social change? Is it useful to see medieval social structure in terms of the theories and concepts produced within the medieval period itself? What does modern social theory have to offer the historian seeking to understand English society in the later middle ages? These are the questions which this book seeks to answer. Beginning with an analysis of class structure of medieval England, Part One of this book asks to what extent class conflict was inherent within class relations and discusses the contrasting successes and outcomes of such conflict in town and country. Part Two of the book examines to what extent such class divisions interacted with other forms of social inequality, such as those between orders (nobility and clergy), between men and women, and those arising from membership of a status-group (the Jews). Dr Rigby's discussion of medieval English society is located within the context of recent historical and sociological debates about the nature of social stratification and, using the work of social theorists such as Parkin and Runciman, offers a synthesis of the Marxist and Weberian approaches to social structure. The book should be extremely useful to those undergraduates beginning their studies of medieval England whilst, in offering a new interpretative framework within which to examine social structure, also interesting those historians who are more familiar with this period.
Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages
Title | Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Dyer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 1989-03-09 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521272155 |
Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went through a series of upheavals: this was an age of war, pestilence and rebellion. This book explores the realities of life of the people who lived through those stirring times. It looks in turn at aristocrats, peasants, townsmen, wage-earners and paupers, and examines how they obtained their incomes and how they spent them. This revised edition (1998) includes a substantial new concluding chapter and an updated bibliography.
English Society in the Later Middle Ages, 1348-1500
Title | English Society in the Later Middle Ages, 1348-1500 PDF eBook |
Author | Maurice Hugh Keen |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
A presentation of the social history of Britain, from 1348-1500, describing medieval society, with its rigid stratifications of nobility and peasant, and the transition to the beginning of the early modern period.
English Life and Manners in the Later Middle Ages
Title | English Life and Manners in the Later Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Annie Abram |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 504 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | England |
ISBN |
The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages
Title | The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Given-Wilson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 2002-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134751419 |
First Published in 2004. Four things dominated the life of the mediaeval noble: warfare, politics, land and family. It is with these central themes that this book is concerned. It encompasses the whole of the upper segment of the late medieval society; examines the relation of social status and political influence; describes the noble household and council; examines in detail the territorial and familial policies pursued by great landholders; emphasises the inter-relationship of local and national affairs; is arranged thematically, making it ideal for student use and has implications for the whole medieval period.
An Age of Transition?
Title | An Age of Transition? PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Dyer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2005-02-03 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0198221665 |
This significant new work by a prominent medievalist focusses on the period of transition between 1250 and 1550, when the wealth and power of the great lords was threatened and weakened, and when new social groups emerged and new methods of production were adopted. Professor Dyer examines both the commercial growth of the thirteenth century, and the restructuring of farming, trade, and industry in the fifteenth. The subjects investigated include the balance between individuals andthe collective interests of families and villages. The role of the aristocracy and in particular the gentry are scrutinized, and emphasis placed on the initiatives taken by peasants, traders, and craftsmen. The growth in consumption moved the economy in new directions after 1350, and this encouragedinvestment in productive enterprises. A commercial mentality persisted and grew, and producers, such as farmers, profited from the market. Many people lived on wages, but not enough of them to justify describing the sixteenth century economy as capitalist. The conclusions are supported by research in sources not much used before, such as wills, and non-written evidence, including buildings.Christopher Dyer, who has already published on many aspects of this period, has produced the first full-length study by a single author of the 'transition'. He argues for a reassessment of the whole period, and shows that many features of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries can be found before 1500.
Political Society in Later Medieval England
Title | Political Society in Later Medieval England PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Thompson |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | 282 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1783270306 |
Essays on the connections between politics and society in the middle ages, showing their interdependence.