| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 293 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The Ford lectures
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Ford lectures.
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| Note |
"The Ford Lectures delivered in the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 2001." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-279) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- A new Middle Ages -- Community and privacy -- Authority and freedom -- Consumption and investment -- Subsistence and markets -- Work and leisure -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
Christopher Dyer examines the transition in the economy and society of England between 1250 and 1550. Using new sources of evidence, he demonstrates that important structural changes after 1350 built on the commercial growth of the thirteenth century. He shows that development of individual property, response to new consumption patterns, and use of credit and investment, came from the peasantry rather than the aristocracy. An Age of Transition?, a significant new work by a. top medievalist, reveals how England was set on course to become the 'first industrial nation'. - ;This significant new w. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Chronological Term |
1066-1599 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dyer, Christopher, 1944- Age of transition?. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 0198221665 9780198221661 (DLC) 2005272859 (OCoLC)57528662 |
| ISBN |
9781429470124 (electronic book) |
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1429470127 (electronic book) |
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9780198221661 (hardback) |
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0198221665 (hardback) |
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9780191518829 (electronic book) |
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0191518824 (electronic book) |
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0198221665 (Cloth) |
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9780199215263 (paperback) |
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019921526X (paperback) |
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