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Social Relations and Ideas

Social Relations and Ideas

Social Relations and Ideas

Essays in Honour of R. H. Hilton
Editors:
T. H. Aston
P. R. Coss
Christopher Dyer
Joan Thirsk
Edward Miller, T. H. Aston, Sally P. J. Harvey, M. M. Postan, Georges Duby, P. R. Cross, Zvi Razi, Geoffrey Shepherd, Christopher Dyer, G. G. Astill, Heide Wunder, R. E. F. Smith, Joan Thirsk, Jean Birrell
Published:
June 2009
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Paperback
ISBN:
9780521108751

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    This volume of essays in honour of Professor R. H. Hilton is presented by some of his numerous friends and pupils. It attempts to reflect his wide-ranging interests while highlighting certain themes and preserving some distinct degree of unity. The essays illustrate his abiding concern with the social structure, the rural economy and the mentalité of the Middle Ages. They also indicate that his interests have have always been pursued with the use of the widest possible range of sources so that archaeological and literary evidence are employed, as in his own work, alongside the sources more usually familiar to social historians. This book will be of permanent interest to all historians and particularly those specialising in social and economic history.

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    June 2009
    Paperback
    9780521108751
    356 pages
    216 × 140 × 20 mm
    0.45kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • Acknowledgements
    • Introduction Edward Miller
    • 1. The origins of the manor in England with a postscript T. H. Aston
    • 2. The extent and profitability of Demesne agriculture in England in the later eleventh century Sally P. J. Harvey
    • 3. Feudalism and its decline: a semantic exercise M. M. Postan
    • 4. The matron and the mis-married woman: perceptions of marriage in northern France circa 1100 Georges Duby
    • 5. Literature and social terminology: the Vavasour in England P. R. Cross
    • 6. The struggles between the Abbots of Halesowen and their tenants in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Zvi Razi
    • 7. Poverty in Piers Plowman Geoffrey Shepherd
    • 8. English diet in the later Middle Ages Christopher Dyer
    • 9. Economic change in later medieval England: an archaeological review G. G. Astill
    • 10. Serfdom in later medieval and early modern Germany Heide Wunder
    • 11. Time, space and use in Early Russia R. E. F. Smith
    • 12. Plough and pen: agricultural writers in the seventeenth century Joan Thirsk
    • Bibliography of R. H. Hilton's works to January 1982 Jean Birrell
    • Index.
      Contributors
    • Edward Miller, T. H. Aston, Sally P. J. Harvey, M. M. Postan, Georges Duby, P. R. Cross, Zvi Razi, Geoffrey Shepherd, Christopher Dyer, G. G. Astill, Heide Wunder, R. E. F. Smith, Joan Thirsk, Jean Birrell

    • Editors
    • T. H. Aston
    • P. R. Coss
    • Christopher Dyer
    • Joan Thirsk