Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520  12433

• Introduction: Approaching the economic history of medieval Britain

Part One: Origins of the medieval economy, c. 850-c.1100[rtoc]

1. Living on the land, c.850-c.1050
   1. Farming
   2. Expansion
   3. Estates and lords
   4. Peasants
2. Crisis and new directions, c. 850-c.1050
   1. The Viking invasions
   2. The growth of the state
   3. The origins of towns
3. Conquest, c.1050-c.1100
   1. Old Aristocracy
   2. New Aristocracy
   3. England in 1086[/rtoc]

Part Two: Expansion and crisis, c. 1100 – c. 1350[rtoc]

4. Lords, c. 1100 – c. 1350
   1. Aristocracy and property
   2. Managing the estate
   3. Lords and peasants
   4. Lords and towns
   5. Nights and gentry
   6. Aristocratic achievement
5. Peasants, c. 1100 – c.1350
   1. Families and population
   2. Peasants and their holdings
   3. Pesants and the market
   4. Peasants and lords
   5. Individuals and communities
6. Towns and commerce, c. 1100 – c.1315
   1. Urban expansion
   2. The urban environment
   3. Urban occupation
   4. Techniques of trade and manufacture
   5. Urban government
   6. Towns in a feudal economy
7. Crisis, c. 1290- c. 1350
   1. Great Famine and the Black Death
   2. Contraction and change
   3. Historical debate
   4. Crisis in Scotland
   5. Explanations[/rtoc]

Part Three: Making a new world, c. 1350 – c. 1520[rtoc]

8. The Black Death and its aftermath, c. 1348 – c. 1520
   1. Plague and population, c. 1348-c. 1520
   2. Low population, c. 1348 – c. 1400
   3. Revolts
   4. The economy, c. 1348 – c. 1400
9. Towns, trade and industry, c. 1350-c. 1520
   1. Urban fortunes
   2. Urban economies
   3. Consumers
   4. Old and new
10. The countryside, c. 1350 – c. 1520
    1. Landlords
    2. Gentry
    3. Farmers
    4. Peasants[/rtoc]

• Conclusion

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