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Bruce
M. Campbell & Ken Bartley.
England
on the eve of the black death: an atlas of lay lordship, land and
wealth, 1300–49.
Manchester
U.P., due March 2006.
236x189mm.
428pp,
350 illustrations including colour maps.
Publisher's
recommended price
Hardback
ISBN
0719037689, £120.00
This atlas makes pioneering
use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to unlock part of the
treasure trove of information contained in England's unrivalled
medieval public records. The result is an indispensable work of
reference. Data from over 9,000 manorial extents, the tax returns of
15,000 individual wills, and 2,000 detailed manorial accounts are
linked to reveal the human geography in England during the pivotal half
century before the Black Death in all its complexity.
Manorial
structure, land tenure, land-use, agriculture, milling resources,
markets, fairs, taxable wealth, and the tax-paying population are just
some of the key variables that are measured and mapped. The results
invite comparison with the Domesday Survey made some 250 years earlier.
Historians
will value the fresh critical light that is cast upon the inquisitions
post mortem and the lay subsidies of 1327, 1332, and 1334 – two of the
most important and controversial sources of the period. This book also
demonstrates the powerful potential of GIS as a tool of historical
research.
Contents:
List of tables
List of graphs
List of maps
1. Preface
2. How the maps have been created
3. The IPMs as a source
4. Regional traits
5. Common rights
6. Estates, manors, and demesnes
7. The demesne: messuages and buildings
8. The demesne: minor land-uses and food sources
9. The demesne: major land-uses
10. The demesne: unit land values
11. The demesne: land-use types
12. The demesne: husbandry types
13. The demesne: agricultural types
14. Rents and services
15. Seigniorial courts and their revenues
16. Mills
17. Commerce and trade
18. Lay wealth and taxpayers in 1327, 1332, and 1334
Appendix 1: 1327 and 1332 lay subsidies: documentary reference numbers,
Public Record Office, London
Appendix 2: Coding scheme of IPM database
Endnotes
Index of people and places.
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