Rethinking the Great Transition - Community and Economic Growth in County Durham, 1349-1660

This case study of two rural parishes in County Durham, England, provides an alternate view on the economic development involved in the transition from medieval to modern, partly explaining England's rise to global economic dominance in the seventeenth century.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Development and Capitalism


• 2: Villages and Parishes


• 3: Life, Marriage, Death, and the Household


• 4: The Foundation of the Agrarian Economy


• 5: Agrarian Development


• 6: Standards of Living in an Age of Transition


• 7: The Expanding and Evolving Economy


• 8: Individuals and Communities


• Conclusion


• Appendix A: Landholding Database


• Appendix B: Baptism, Fornication, Marriage, and Funeral Databases


• Appendix C: Probate Inventories

About the author

Peter L. Larson received his PhD from Rutgers in 2004 and holds MA degrees from Durham University and the Catholic University of America. He is an associate professor at the University of Central Florida and has been chair of the History Department since 2016. He is the author of Conflict and Compromise in the Late Medieval Countryside: Lords and Peasants in Durham, 1349-1400 (2006). His research centres on the social and economic history of County Durham in the late medieval and early modern periods.

Summary

This case study of two rural parishes in County Durham, England, provides an alternate view on the economic development involved in the transition from medieval to modern, partly explaining England's rise to global economic dominance in the seventeenth century.

Additional text

Larson has produced an outstanding local study of a "peripheral" area of England, which consequently generates nuance and complexity for our understanding of one of the biggest questions in economic and social history.

Product details

• Authors: Larson , Peter L. Larson, Peter L. (Associate Professor Larson, Larson Peter L.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9780192849878
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284987-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Economic history, CE period up to c 1500, c 1500 onwards to present day, Medieval History, Social and cultural history, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE