Medieval
British Landed Estates
Medieval
British Landed Estates
This course is complementary to the course 'The "Middle" Ages: A New Perspective.' It will allow students to undertake in-depth investigations, based on primary documentary and archaeological materials, into aspects of British economic and social life in the period before- and during that phase of real economic growth from which emerged a distinctive "medieval" society (850-1340 AD). The course is divided into two term-length components. There will be three such term-length components on:
two of which will be taught each year on a rotational basis.
The course is designed to train students to undertake empirical investigations into the evolution of the mediæval economy and society. It will involve a direct study of historical data; primary sources, including not only textual materials (in translation) but also archaeological data and iconographic images, and interpretation by scholars, employing the tools of the social scientist. Students will thus learn methods of contextual analysis and interrogation, and gain insights into how to conceptualize and analyse such materials, utilizing historical, political science and economics methodology.
LECTURES AND SEMINARS
1. Estate Structures and Settlement Patterns
G R J Jones, "Multiple Estates and Early Settlement" in P H Sawyer (ed.),English Medieval Settlement (1979)
C Taylor, Village and Farmstead: A History of Rural Settlement in England (1983)
J C Holt, "Feudal Society and the Family in Early Medieval
England. I. The Revolution of 1066", Transactions of the
Royal Historical Society, Fifth Series, XXXII (1981) and "Feudal
Society and the Family in Early Medieval England. II. Notions
of Patrimony", ibidem XXXIII (1983)
2. Field Systems and Agrarian Systems
A R H Baker & R A Butlin (eds), Studies of Field Systems in the British Isles (Cambridge, 1973)
P D A Harvey, The Peasant Land Market in Medieval England
(Oxford, 1984)
3. English Village Society in the Thirteenth Century
J A Raftis, "Social structure in five East Midland villages", Econ. Hist. Review, XVIII (1965); "The concentration of responsibility in five villages", Medieval Studies, XXVIII (1966); "Changes in an English village after the Black Death", ibidem, XXIX (1967); Tenure and Mobility. Studies in the Social History of the medieval English village (1964) and Warboys. Two hundred years in the life of an English village (1974)
E B de Windt, Land and people in Hollywell-cum-Needingworth (1972)
E Britton, The community of the vill. A study of family and village life in the fourteenth century (1977).
1. Estate Structures and Settlement Patterns
*G R J Jones, "Multiple Estates and Early Settlement" in P H Sawyer (ed.),English Medieval Settlement (1979)
*C Taylor, Village and Farmstead: A History of Rural Settlement in England (1983)
C J Arnold and P Wardle, "Early Medieval Settlement Patterns in England", Medieval Archaeology, XXV (1981)
Anne Goodier, "The Formation of Boundaries in Anglo-Saxon England: A Statistical Study", Medieval Archaeology, XXVIII (1984)
C D Morris, "Aspects of Scandanavian Settlement in Northern England", Northern History, XX (1984)
D Coggins, "Simy Folds: An Early Medieval Settlement in Upper Teesdale, Co. Durham", Medieval Archaeology, XXVII (1983)
Della Hooke, "Anglo-Saxon Landscapes of the West Midlands: The Charter Evidence" British Archaeological Reports, XCV (1981) and "Pre-Conquest Estates in the West Midlands: Preliminary Thoughts", Journal of Historical Geography, VIII, 3 (1981)
J C Holt, "Feudal Society and the Family in Early Medieval England. I. The Revolution of 1066", Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Fifth Series, XXXII (1981) and "Feudal Society and the Family in Early Medieval England. II. Notions of Patrimony", ibidem XXXIII (1983)
Paul R Hyams, Kings, Lords and Peasants in Medieval England. The Common Law of Villeinage in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (Oxford,1980)
Edmund King, Peterborough Abbey, 1086-1310 (Cambridge, 1973)
F R H Du Boulay, The Lordship of Canterbury. An Essay on Medieval Society (London, 1966)
Barbara Harvey, Westminster Abbey Estates in the Middle Ages (Oxford, 1977)
Christopher Dyer, Lords and Peasants in a Changing Society. The Estates of the Bishopric of Worcester, 680-1540 (Cambridge, 1980)
2. Field Systems and Agrarian Systems
Mary Harvey, "Regular Field and Tenurial Arrangements in Holderness Yorkshire", Journal of Historical Geography, VI , 1 (1979) and "Irregular Villages in Holderness, Yorkshire: Some Thoughts on their Origin", Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, LIV (1982); "Open Field Structure and Land Holding Arrangements in Eastern Yorkshire", Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, IX (1984); "Planned Field Systems in Eastern Yorkshire: Some Thoughts on their Origin", Agric History Review, XXXI, 2 (1983); "Regular Open Field Systems in the Yorkshire Wold", Landscape History, IV (1983)
A R H Baker & R A Butlin (eds), Studies of Field Systems in the British Isles (Cambridge, 1973)
P D A Harvey, The Peasant Land Market in Medieval England (Oxford, 1984)
H E Hallam, Settlement and Society. A Study of the Early Agrarian History of South Lincolnshire (Cambridge, 1965) and "The Climate of Eastern England, 1250-1350", Agric History Review, XXXI, 1 (1984)
Mark Bailey, A Marginal Economy? East Anglian Breckland in the Later Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1989)
Bruce M S Campbell, "The Regional Uniqueness of English Field Systems? Some Evidence from East Norfolk", Agricultural History Review, XXIX, 1 (1980) "Arable Productivity in Medieval England: Some Evidence from Norfolk", Journal of Economic History, XLIII, 2 (1982) and English Seignorial Agriculture, 1250-1450 (Cambrudge, 2000)
3. Thirteenth-Century Village Society
Social Stucture
J A Raftis, "Social structure in five East Midland villages", Econ. Hist. Review, XVIII (1965); "The concentration of responsibility in five villages", Medieval Studies, XXVIII (1966); "Changes in an English village after the Black Death", ibidem, XXIX (1967); Tenure and Mobility. Studies in the Social History of the medieval English village (1964) and Warboys. Two hundred years in the life of an English village (1974)
E B de Windt, Land and people in Hollywell-cum-Needingworth (1972)
E Britton, The community of the vill. A study of family and village life in the fourteenth century (1977)
Anne de Windt, "Peasant Power Structures in Fourteenth-Century King's Repton", Medieval Studies, XXXVIII (1976) and "The Peasant Land Market and its Participants: King's Repton, 1280-1400" Midland History, IV, 3-4 (1979)
Zvi Razi, "The Toronto School's Reconstitution of Medieval Peasant Society: A Critical View", Past and Present, No LXXXV (1979), "Family, Land and Village Community in Later Medieval England", Past and Present, no XCIII (1981) and Life, Marriage and Death in a Medieval Parish. Economy, Society and Demography in Halesowen, 1270-1400 (1980)
Judith Bennet, "Spouses, Siblings and Surnames: Reconstructing Families from Medieval Village Court Rolls", Journal of British Studies, XXIII, 2 (1983) and "The Ties that Binds: Peasant Marriages and Families in Late Medieval England", Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XV, 1 (1983)
M Pimsler, "Solidarity in the Medieval Village? The Evidence of Personal Pledging at Elton, Huntingdonshire", Journal of British Studies, XVII, 1 (1977)
Ian Blanchard, 'Social Structure and Social Organization in an English Village at the Close of the Middle Ages: Chewton 1526' in Edwin Brezette de Windt (ed.), The salt of common life: individuality and choice in the medieval town, countryside and church. Essays presented to J A Raftis on the occasion of his 70th birthday (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, West Michigan UP, 1996), pp. 307-340;
C Howell, Land, Family & Inheritance in Transition. Kibworth Harcourt, 1280-1700 (Cambridge, 1983)
Crime and Justice
Barbara Hanawalt, "Community Conflict and Social Control: Crime and Justice in the Ramsey Abbey Villages",Medieval Studies, XXXIX (1977) and Crime and Conflict in English Communities, 1300-1348 (Cambridge, Mass., 1979)
Consumption and Hierarchy
Ian Blanchard, 'Stannator Fabulosus', Agricultural History Review, XXII, 1 (1974), pp.62-74 ; 'Labour productivity and work psychology in the English mining industry 1400-1600', Economic History Review, Second Series, XXXI, 1 (1978), pp.1-15; 'Industrial Employment and the Rural Land Market, 1380-1520' in R M Smith (ed.), Land, Kinship and Life Cycle (Cambridge: Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, 1, 1984 ), pp.227-276; 'Consumption and Hierarchy in English Peasant Society, 1400-1600', Chicago Economic History Workshop Papers, No.20 (1980), pp.1-12 and 'Konsumpcja ne wsi angielskiej, 1580-1680 (English Peasant Consumption. The End of an Epoch, 1580-1680)' Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnij XXX,1 (1982)
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