Survival and Discord in Medieval Society: Essays in Honour of Christopher Dyer
Edited by Richard Godard, John Langdon and Miriam Muller
Brepols, 2010
ISBN: 978-2-503-52815-1
Publisher’s Synopsis: This book, a tribute to an exceptional scholar known for his broad-ranging interests, brings together the new work of students, friends, and colleagues of Prof. Dyer. The volume reflects his interests in the twin disciplines of history and archaeology and his ground-breaking work in medieval standards of living, social tensions, and town-country relations. The varied and stimulating essays presented in this volume examine a host of critical issues dealing with diet, settlement, employment opportunities, taxation, credit and debt, and the tensions felt in town and country alike which often exploded into full-scale revolt. This new work not only looks at these issues from the standpoint of new evidence and theoretical perspectives, but also imparts a strong sense of the controversy surrounding many of these central issues in medieval history, ranging from how well common people managed to live and reproduce to the nature of their relationships with each other and with their social superiors. The volume, in short, stimulates a vital reconsideration of many of the key concerns pertaining to the study of medieval societies.
Contents
The Long and the Short: Rural Settlement in Medieval England, by Grenville Astill
Lords and Wastes, by Harold Fox
Postan’s Fifteenth Century, by Richard Britnell
Surviving Recession: English Borough Courts and Commercial Contraction, 1250-1500, by Richard Goddard
Economic Survival in Late Medieval Derbyshire: The Spirituality Income of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, c.1400-c.1535, by Robert Swanson
Waged Building Employment in Medieval England: Subsistence Safety Net or Demographic Trampoline?, by John Langdon
Town, Country, and Law: Royal Courts and Regional Mobility in Medieval England, c.1200-c.1400, by James Masschaele
Trespass Litigation in the Manor Court in the Late Thirteenth Century and Early Fourteenth Centuries, by Phillipp R. Schofield
Individualism, Community and Lordship: The Peasant Demesne Lessees of Great Horwood, 1320-1610, by Matthew Tompkins
Monitoring Demesne Managers through the Manor Court before and after the Black Death, by Chris Briggs
Confrontation and Negotiation in a Medieval Village: Alrewas before the Black Death, by Jean Birrell
The Control of Discord in Fifteenth-Century Chester, by Jane Laughton
Food, Hierarchy, and Class Conflict, by Miriam Muller
Rural Revolts and Structural Changes in the Low Countries, Thirteenth – Early Fourteenth Centuries, by Bas J.P. Van Bavel
Revolts of the Late Middle Ages and the Peculiarities of the English, by Samuel Cohn
Bibliography of Christopher Dyer’s Writings, 1968-2009: The Story so Far…, Compiled by Richard Goddard
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