A fresh examination of how society and economy changed at the end of the middle ages, comparing urban and rural experience. The traditional boundary between the

The aim of this lavishly illustrated book is to provide an in-depth study of the many medieval peasant houses still standing in Midland villages, and of their h

Around 1500 England's society and economy had reached a turning point. After a long period of slow change and even stagnation, an age of innovation and initiati

Scholars from various disciplines have long debated why western Europe in general, and England in particular, led the transition from feudalism to capitalism. T

The Southampton brokage books are the best source for English inland trade before modern times. Internal trade always matched overseas trade. Between 1430 and 1