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This is a study of rural social structure in the English county of Essex
between 1350 and 1525. It seeks to understand how, in the population
collapse after the Black Death (1348-1349), a particular economic environ-
ment affected ordinary people's lives in the areas of migration, marriage and
employment, and also contributed to patterns of religious nonconformity,
agrarian riots and unrest, and even rural housing. The period under scrutiny
is often seen as a transitional era between 'medieval' and 'early-modern'
England, but in the light of recent advances in English historical demogra-
phy this study suggests that there was more continuity than change in some
critically important aspects of social structure in the region in question.
Among the most important contributions of
A rural society after the Black
Death
are its use of an unprecedentedly wide range of original manuscript
records (estate and manorial records, taxation and criminal-court records,
royal tenurial records, and the records of church courts, wills etc.) and its
application of current quantitative and comparative demographic methods.
A rural society
after the Black Death
Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and
Society in Past Time 18
Series editors
PETER LASLETT, ROGER SCHOFIELD and
E. A. WRIGLEY
ESRC Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
and DANIEL SCOTT SMITH
University of Illinois at Chicago
Recent work in social, economic and demographic history has revealed much
that was previously obscure about societal stability and change in the past. It
has also suggested that crossing the conventional boundaries between these
branches of history can be very rewarding.
This series will exemplify the value of interdisciplinary work of this kind,
and will include books on topics such as family, kinship and neighbourhood;
welfare provision and social control; work and leisure; migration; urban
growth; and legal structures and procedures, as well as more familiar matters.
It will demonstrate that, for example, anthropology and economics have
become as close intellectual neighbours to history as have political philosophy
or biography.
For a full list of titles in the series, please see end of book
A rural society
after the Black Death:
Essex 1350-1525
L. R. POOS
Associate Professor in the Department of History,
The Catholic University of America,
Washington DC
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