Town and Countryside in Western Berkshire, c.1327–c.1600: Social and Economic Change

Margaret Yates

Town and Countryside in Western Berkshire, c.1327–c.1600

Social and Economic Change

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Margaret Yates, University of Reading

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: February 2013
Print publication year:: 2007
Online ISBN:: 9781846156007

Subjects:: British History 1066-1450, History

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A fresh examination of how society and economy changed at the end of the middle ages, comparing urban and rural experience. The traditional boundary between the medieval and early modern periods is challenged in this new study of social and economic change that bridges the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It addresses the large historical questions - what changed, when and why - through a detailed case study of western Berkshire and Newbury, integrating the experiences of both town and countryside. Newbury is of particular interest being a rising cloth manufacturing centre that had contacts with London and overseas due to its specialist production of kerseys. The evidence comes from original documentary research and the data are clearly presented in tables and graphs. It is a book alive with the actions of people, famous men such as the clothier John Winchcombe known as 'Jack of Newbury', but more notably by the hundreds of individuals, such as William Eyston or Isabella Bullford, who acquired property, cultivated their lands, or, in the case of Isabella, managed the mill complex after her husband's death. MARGARET YATES is Lecturer in History at the University of Reading.

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Town and Countryside in Western Berkshire, c.1327–c.1600

Social and Economic Change

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of tables, figures, and maps
pp ix-x

Acknowledgements
pp xi-xii

Abbreviations
pp xiii-xiii

Sums of money
pp xiv-xiv

1 - The end of the Middle Ages?
pp 1-23

2 - Landscapes, population and wealth in western Berkshire from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century
pp 24-66

3 - Town and country relations: Newbury and its hinterland
pp 67-124

4 - Estate management and profitability
pp 125-174

5 - Tenant society
pp 175-231

6 - Conclusion: the chronology of change
pp 232-249

Appendices

I - Documents, methodology and data relating to chapter 2
pp 250-261

II - Comparative data for imports of woad and wine through Southampton from 1439–40 to 1491–92
pp 262-263

III - Methodology and documentation for the case studies of chapter 4
pp 264-267

IV - Tables containing the full data relating to chapter 5
pp 268-272

Bibliography
pp 273-324

Index
pp 325-338

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