English Seigniorial Agriculture, 1250–1450
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography
- Author: Bruce M. S. Campbell, Queen's University Belfast
- Date Published: June 2006
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521026420
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Bruce Campbell's book, first published in 2000, was the first single-authored treatment of medieval English agriculture at a national scale. It deals comprehensively with the cultivation carried out by or for lords on their demesne farms, for which the documentation is more detailed and abundant than for any other agricultural group either during the medieval period or later. A context is thereby assured for all future work on the medieval and early modern agrarian economies. The book also makes a substantive contribution to ongoing historical debates about the dimensions, chronology and causes of the medieval cycle of expansion, crisis and contraction. Topics dealt with include the scale and composition of seigniorial estates, the geography of land-use, pastoral husbandry, arable husbandry, land productivity, levels of commercialization and the size of the population in relation to the consumption of food at any given time.
Read more- First single-authored treatment of medieval English agriculture and, as such, will provide a context for scholarship in the future
- Study is the result of extensive original research and methodologically very innovative
- Given the density and richness of the subject-matter and material available, this is a beautifully written and accessible text
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'If there are, a generation and more from now, still students willing and able to undertake medieval social and economic history, a standard question of those attempting regional, estate, or manorial studies will be 'have you looked up your manor/estate/region in 'Campbell'? … It is, simply put, one of the most important works on medieval English agrarian history to have been published.' The English Historical Review
See more reviews'This is certainly a book which will promote further discussion of how the late medieval economy and population actually worked, and it will do much to make that discussion better informed.' Local Population Studies Society
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- Date Published: June 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521026420
- length: 548 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 33 mm
- weight: 0.822kg
- contains: 51 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Preface and acknowledgements
1. Introduction: agriculture and the late-medieval English economy
2. Sources, databases and typologies
3. The scale and composition of the seigniorial sector
4. Seigniorial pastoral production
5. Seigniorial arable production
6. Crop specialisation and cropping systems
7. Arable productivity
8. Grain output and population: a conundrum
9. Adapting to change: English seigniorial agriculture, 1250–1450
Appendices
Consolidated bibliography
Index.
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