Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages Social Change in England C. 1200-1520

Name: Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages Social Change in England C. 1200-1520
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ISBN: 9780521272155

ISBN-10: 0521272157

ISBN-13: 9780521272155

Edition: 1998

Authors: Christopher Dyer

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Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went through a series of upheavals--wars, pestilence, and rebellion. This book looks at aristocrats, peasants, townsmen, wage-earners, and paupers, and examines how they obtained and spent their incomes. Did the aristocracy practice conspicuous consumption? Did the peasants really starve? The book focuses on the varying fortunes of different social groups in the inflation of the thirteenth century, the crises of the fourteenth, and the apparent depression of the fifteenth. Dr. Dyer explains the changes in terms of the dynamics of a social and economic system subjected to stimuli and stresses.

Book details

List price: $58.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/9/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 356
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.46" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of tables


Preface


Acknowledgements


List of abbreviations


Weights, measures and places


Introduction



Late medieval society



Aristocratic incomes



The aristocracy as consumers



Aristocratic expenditure: making ends meet



Peasant living standards: modelling the peasant economy



Peasants as consumers



Urban standard of living



The wage-earners



Poverty and charity



The weather and standards of living


Conclusion


Medieval living standards - postscript


Bibliography


Index