Town and Countryside in western Berkshire, c.1327-c.1600
Subtitle: Social and Economic Change
Publisher: Boydell Press; Boydell
Published: November 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781843833284
Subjects: Social history; c 1500 to c 1600; Literary Criticism; Berkshire; History / Medieval; World history; General
Description: "The traditional view that there is a boundary between the medieval and early modern periods is challenged in this new study of social and economic change, which bridges the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries." "It addresses the large historical questions - what changed, when and why - through a detailed case study of western Berkshire and Newbury, integrating the experiences of both town and countryside. Newbury is of particular interest, being a rising cloth-manufacturing centre that had contacts with London and overseas due to its specialist production of kerseys." "The evidence comes from original documentary research and the data are clearly presented in tables and graphs. It is a book alive with the actions of people, famous men such as the clothier John Winchcombe, known as 'Jack of Newbury', but more not ably the hundreds of individuals, such as William Eyston or Isabella Bullford, who acquired property, cultivated their lands, or, in the case of Isabella, managed the mill complex after her husband's death."--Jacket.