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 | | Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England c. 1200-1520 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks) by Christopher Dyer ISBN-10: 9780521251273 ISBN-10: 0-521-25127-3 ISBN-13: 9780521251273 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-25127-3 Hardcover 1989-03-31 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description 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 Description An exploration of the varying fortunes of different social groups in the course of a series of upheavals--war, pestilence and rebellion--that occurred between 1200 and 1520 in medieval English society. | ||
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Great fun There are two eds. of this book, and Dyer has a new survey out--so you may wish to buy the survey rather than this--but I still remember how much fun this was to read when I was reading for my orals. Some of the reviews were very critical, but I thought it was particularly good at incorporating archeological evidence to build a coherent picture of life and social change. | ||