First published in 1962, this book challenges the notion that the later Middle Ages failed to sustain the economic growth of earlier centuries, suggesting that historians have been preoccupied with absolute levels of output over more important questions of output per head. It also argues they have ignored the disastrous fall in living standards in the thirteenth century and the astonishing rise that occurred later. Using national taxation records and records of urban government, as well as research from fields ranging from parliamentary history to statistics of foreign trade, the author attempts to establish that the later Middle Ages has also been wrongly defamed in political affairs.

Economic Growth: England in the Later Middle Ages

History

Bridbury, A. R.

Europe

Barnes & Noble Imports

A re-evaluation of economic developments of the later Middle Ages from the Black Death of 1348, to the Peasant's Revolt of 1381, to the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. Bridbury suggests that historians, who have been preoccupied with absolute levels of output to the detriment of more important questions of output per head, have ignored the disasterous fall of living standards that occurred in the thirteenth century, and the astonishing rise in living standards that came later.

Business & Money

Economics

Praeger

Medieval English Clothmaking: An Economic Survey

Ashgate Pub. Co

Historians and the open society

Routledge and K. Paul

Oxford University - Clarendon Press. London 1955. Hardback. pp: 198

England and the salt trade in the later Middle Ages,

Greenwood Press

This book consists of a collection of articles on social and economicthemes which range from a discussion of the social scene in the seventhcentury into which Bede was born, to an analysis of the inevitablelimitations of farming development in the sixteenth century. There is an article which attempts, yet again, to shed more light upon what contemporaries expected Domesday Book to reveal; and others which tackle problems raised by the workings of the manorin the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The beneficent consequences of the Black Death upon the fortunes of those who lived in town and country are considered in a short series of essays which analyse such problems as economic conditions before the Black Death; the extraordinary failure of the Black Death to make any serious impact upon the economy for a generation after its arrival; and the thriving of the towns as numbers fell in the kingdom but individual incomes rose. Of special interest is an exciting new discovery about Domesday Book relating to Domesday assessments of manorial income, which merits careful reading and further investigation. A.R. BRIDBURYtaught at the London School of Economics, where he ran the medieval section of the economic history department for many years.

The English Economy from Bede to the Reformation

Boydell & Brewer Inc

In this volume, originally published in 1972, the author discusses the conflict between the historian’s own expressed political views and the judgements he makes on political events in history.

Historians and the Open Society (Routledge Library Editions: Historiography)

Routledge

Economic Growth (Routledge Revivals): England in the Later Middle Ages

Economic Growth (Routledge Revivals)

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