English Seigniorial Agriculture, 1250-1450

Zusammenfassung This book! first published in 2000! was the first single-authored treatment of medieval English agriculture at a national scale. It deals comprehensively with cultivation carried out by landowners on their demesne farms. Methodologically innovative! the book provides a framework and context for all future scholarship on the medieval and early agrarian economies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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• Authors: Bruce M. S. Campbell, Campbell Bruce M. S., Bruce M.S. Campbell, Bruce M. S. (Queen''s University Belfast Campbell, Campbell Bruce M. S.
• Assisted by: Alan R. H. Baker (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.06.2006
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9780521026420
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02642-0
• Pages: 548
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Historica > 31; Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography
• Subjects: England, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, Economic history, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Agriculture and farming, AGRICULTURE & FARMING