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Marginal Economy? East Anglian Breckland in the Later Middle Ages

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ISBN-10: 0521073146

ISBN-13: 9780521073141

Edition: 2008

Authors: Mark Bailey

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A theory of the margin has long featured in the work of medieval historians. Marginal regions are taken to be those of poor soil or geographical remoteness, where farmers experienced particular difficulties in grain production. It is argued that such regions were cultivated only when demographic pressure intensified in the thirteenth century, but that a combination of soil exhaustion and demographic decline resulted in severe economic contraction by the end of the fourteenth century. Marginal regions are seen not just as sensitive barometers of economic change but as important catalysts in that change. Despite the importance placed by historians on the general theory of the margin, this…    
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List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/4/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.67" wide x 8.82" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

MARK & SALLY BAILEY have been evolving their unique style for more than 30 years, both in their home and business, Baileys, in the Herefordshire countryside. Their backgrounds in architecture, interior design and furniture-making have led to numerous collaborations with the music and fashion industries, retailers and in product design. Their first two books forRyland Peters & Small, Recycled Home and Simple Home, have been critical and commercial successes.

At the margin
Field systems and agrarian techniques in medieval Breckland
East Anglian Breckland: A marginal economy
Growth, crisis and change: Economic performance 1300-1399
Decline and recovery: economic performance 1400-1540
Conclusion