| Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England C.1200-1520 Contributor(s): Dyer, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 1139167693 ISBN-13: 9781139167697 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $494.00 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economics - Macroeconomics - Business & Economics | Economic History - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 339.470 |
| Series: Cambridge Medieval Textbooks |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |