Progress and Problems in Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Edward Miller

by Edited by Richard Britnell , John Hatcher

• ISBN13: 9780521550369
• ISBN10: 052155036X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-06-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The contributors to this collection of essays in honour of the distinguished medieval historian Edward Miller pay tribute by writing on the society and economy of England between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries. They address many of the most important themes of an era that witnessed profound change in rural, commercial, urban and industrial life, and they focus in particular on the progress achieved and the problems encountered. Each of the original essays contains the fruits of new research. The subjects covered include the growth of London, the commercial and urban development of the north, Italian merchants and banking, overseas trade, taxation, farm servants, hunting and poaching, changing relations between landlords and tenants, the expansion of the economy in the twelfth century, and the great slump of the fifteenth. The book has been written by leading experts, and is a major contribution to English medieval economic and social history.

Table of Contents

Edward Miller: an appreciation George Holmes

1. Economic development in the early twelfth century Edmund King

2. Lothian and beyond: the economy of the 'English empire' of David I Ian Blanchard

3. Boroughs, markets and trade in northern England, 1000-1216 Richard Britnell

4. Peasant deer poachers in the medieval forest Jean Birrell

5. The growth of London in the medieval economy Pamela Nightingale

6. The bankruptcy of the Scali of Florence in England, 1326-28 Edmund Fryde

7. The English export trade in cloth in the early fourteenth century Wendy R. Childs

8. A medieval tax haven: Berwick upon Tweed and the English crown, 1333-1461 Anthony Tuck

9. Taxation and communities in late medieval England Christopher Dyer

10. Peasants and the collapse of the manorial economy on some Ramsey Abbey estates J. A. Raftis

11. The famuli in the later middle ages David Farmer

12. The great slump of the mid fifteenth century John Hatcher

13. Lorenzo de' Medici's London branch George Holmes

14. The trade of late medieval Chester Jenny Kermode.