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Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages

Books | Business & Economics / Economic History

Christopher Dyer
Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went through a series of upheavals--wars, pestilence, and rebellion. This book looks at aristocrats, peasants, townsmen, wage-earners, and paupers, and examines how they obtained and spent their incomes. Did the aristocracy practice conspicuous consumption? Did the peasants really starve? The book focuses on the varying fortunes of different social groups in the inflation of the thirteenth century, the crises of the fourteenth, and the apparent depression of the fifteenth. Dr. Dyer explains the changes in terms of the dynamics of a social and economic system subjected to stimuli and stresses.
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Author
Christopher Dyer
Pages
297
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published Date
1989-03-09
ISBN
0521272157 9780521272155

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