Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England C.1200-1520

by Christopher Dyer

Book Overview

Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went through a series of upheavals: this was an age of war, pestilence and rebellion. This book explores the realities of life of the people who lived through those stirring times. It looks in turn at aristocrats, peasants, townsmen, wage-earners and paupers, and examines how they obtained their incomes and how they spent them. This revised edition (1998) includes a substantial new concluding chapter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521272157
• ISBN13: 9780521272155
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"