Medieval Suffolk: An Economic and Social History, 1200-1500

by Mark Bailey and Mark Bailey

Book Overview

A comprehensive survey of the economy and society of late medieval Suffolk.

Suffolk was one of the most important regions of England in the middle ages. Even by 1200 it was wealthy, densely populated, highly commercialised and urbanised; and it survived the impact of three of the most tumultuous events ofthe last millennium, the Great Famine (1315-22), the Black Death (1349) and the Peasants' Revolt (1381), to become by 1500 one of the richest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843833158
• ISBN13: 9781843833154
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.4"