Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain, 850-1520

Yale University Press, 2002. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Clean unmarked pages; slight bumping to top rear corner of jacket. A bright, well-kept copy. In his masterly new book, Christopher Dyer reviews our thinking about the economy of Britain in the middles ages. In analysing economic development and change, he allows us to reconstruct, often vividly, the daily lives and experiences of people in the past. The period covered here (850-1520) saw dramatic alterations in the state of the economy, and this account begins with the forming of villages, towns, networks of exchange and the social hierarchy in the ninth and tenth centuries, and ends with the inflation, population rise, and colonial expansion of the sixteenth century. This is a book about ideas and attitudes as well as the material world, and Dyer shows how people regarded the economy and how they responded to economic change. 406 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; ISBN/EAN: 9780300090604. Inventory No: dscf10276. . 9780300090604