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The Decline of Serfdom in Late Medieval England: From Bondage to Freedom

Mark Bailey

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Description for The Decline of Serfdom in Late Medieval England: From Bondage to Freedom Hardback. An exciting, fresh look at one of the most important questions of medieval scholarship - the decline of serfdom and its implications. Num Pages: 392 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 6 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 798.
An exciting, fresh look at one of the most important questions of medieval scholarship - the decline of serfdom and its implications. Scholars from various disciplines have long debated why western Europe in general, and England in particular, led the transition from feudalism to capitalism. The decline of serfdom between c.1300 and c.1500 in England is centralto this "Transition Debate", because it transformed the lives of ordinary people and opened up the markets in land and labour. Yet, despite its historical importance, there has been no major survey or reassessment of decline of serfdom for decades. Consequently, the debate ... Read more

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Format

Hardback

Publication date

2014

Publisher

Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Condition

New

Number of Pages

385

Place of Publication

Woodbridge, United Kingdom

ISBN

9781843838906

SKU

V9781843838906

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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days

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99-50

About Mark Bailey

MARK BAILEY was recently High Master of St Paul's School, London, and a visiting fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was previously a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and is now the Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. His numerous publications include Medieval Suffolk. An economic and social history 1200-1500 (2007) and After ... Read more

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A powerful corrective to assumed narratives of the decline of serfdom..It is admirably well organized and clearly written, and lends itself to a range of audiences.
HISTORY
This excellent study is an exemplar of qualitatively sensitive, quantitative history at its best. [It] is one of those rare works that demands that textbooks be rewritten or discarded.
PARERGON ... Read more
Systematic, lucid and representing a monumental archival effort, his book offers a compelling new thesis on the chronology and causes of the end of serfdom, while also managing to reflect on the longer-term implications of that transformation....The result is a landmark in the historiography of English rural society.
ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
[This book] presents an innovative reconsideration, questionin many of the traditional views on the economy and society of late medieval England and on the character of serfdom. . . . [I]t contributes to the long-debated question of why England pioneered in the transition from feudalism to capitalism.
THE HISTORIAN
This book would work wonderfully in either advanced undergraduate or graduate surveys that cover peasant economies after the Black Death, and will likely be the standard textbook on the decline of serfdom in medieval England for years to come.
COMITATUS
In a subject prone to sensationalism and theoretical constructs, [Bailey] sets out the historical evidence and conclusions to be drawn from it with great clarity and is concerned at all times with norms rather than exceptions.
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
Original, thoroughly data-based, and likely to set the terms of conversation for some time.
SEHEPUNKTE.DE
Anyone looking for a reliable survey of recent work on late medieval agrarian history will find this part of the book well worth reading. The book's organizing principles are admirably clear from beginning to end and the writing is direct and lucid.
THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW
Bailey's arguments are carefully constructed and powerfully put, and are bound to spark lively debate within the academic community. This makes his book one of the most important contributions to late medieval historiography for many years.
SUFFOLK INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY
Historians of late medieval England have been waiting for a comprehensive history such as this. . . . Bailey challenges existing views on the timing and course of serfdom's decline, linking the economic and personal transformations in the later medieval period to trends found in recent works on the early modern economy.
JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES
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