EBOOK Country Merchant, 1495-1520:Trading and Farming at the End of the Middle Ages -

EBOOK Country Merchant, 1495-1520:Trading and Farming at the End of the Middle Ages
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191624452
EAN: 02A6347EEB
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Stron: 272
Data wydania: 2012
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Around 1500 England's society and economy had reached a turning point. After a        long period of slow change and even stagnation, an age of innovation and initiative        was in motion, with enclosure, voyages of discovery, and new technologies. It was an        age of fierce controversy, in which the government was fearful of beggars and wary        of rebellions. The 'commonwealth' writers such as Thomas More were sharply critical        of the greed of profit hungry landlords who dispossessed the poor. Thisbook is about        a wool merchant and large scale farmer who epitomises in many ways the spirit of the        period. John Heritage kept an account book, from which we can reconstruct a whole        society in the vicinity of Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire. He took part in the        removal of a village which stood inthe way of agricultural 'improvement', ran a        large scale sheep farm, and as a 'woolman' spent much time travelling around the        countryside meeting with gentry, farmers, and peasants in order to buy their wool.          He sold the wool he produced himself, and the fleeces he gathered, to London        merchants who exported wool through Calais to the textile towns of Flanders. The        wool growers named in the book can be studied in their native villages, and their        lives can be reconstructed in the round,interacting in their communities, adapting        their farming to new circumstances, and arranging the building of their local        churches.A Country Merchant has some of the characteristics of a biography, is part        family history and part local history, with some landscape history. Dyer explores        themes in economic and social history without neglecting the religious and cultural        background. His central concern is to demonstrate the importance of the peasants'        contribution to a changing economy.

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