Making a Living in the Middle Ages
Subtitle: The People of Britain 850-1520
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: March 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780300090604
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1000 to c 1500; British & Irish history: c 500 to c 1000; Economic History; Social history; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 1500 to c 1600; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; Social Stratification; Business / Economics / Finance; History: World; British Isles; United Kingdom, Great Britain; World - General; History / General; Asia - Korea; Europe - Great Britain - General; Cities and towns; Economic conditions; Great Britain; History; Medieval period, 1066-1485; Social change; Social classes; To 1500
First sentence: We should explore the economic history of medieval Britain for many reasons.
Description: "In this survey, Christopher Dyer reviews our thinking about the economy of Britain in the middle ages. By analysing economic development and change, he allows us to reconstruct, often vividly, the daily lives and experiences of people in the past.

The period covered here saw dramatic alterations in the state of the economy; and this account begins with the forming of villages, towns, networks of exchange and the social hierarchy in the ninth and tenth centuries, and ends with the inflation and population rise of the sixteenth century.".

"This is a book about ideas and attitudes as well as the material world, and Dyer shows how people regarded the economy and how they responded to economic change. We see the growth of towns, the clearance of woods and wastes, the Great Famine, the Black Death and the upheavals in the fifteenth century through the eyes of those who lived through these great events."--BOOK JACKET.