Chapters from the Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 2, Rural Society: Landowners, Peasants and Labourers, 1500-1750Joan Thirsk Cambridge University Press, 1990 - 480 Seiten Chapters from The Agrarian History of England and Wales, volumes IV and V part II, now appear for the first time in five paperback volumes, designed primarily for a student readership. Dealing respectively with pieces, wages, profits and rents; estate management and the condition of the farm labourer; agricultural techniques and enclosure; marketing; and rural building, these studies bring together the fruits of co-operative scholarship from authorities on the social and economic history of rural England and Wales in the early modern period. To set each subject in context and to update material where necessary, new introductions have been written by the authors of each volume. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
Landlords in Engloand 15001640 | 21 |
2 The decline of the Chamber system 15091554 | 25 |
3 The weaknesses of Crown land administration 15541603 | 30 |
4 The failure of efforts at reform in the reign of James I | 33 |
5 The exploitation of wardships under the early Stuarts | 39 |
B Nobleman gentleman and yeomen | 41 |
A declining class? | 45 |
5 The reaction of the clergy | 157 |
Farm Labourers 15001640 | 161 |
B Holdings and commonrights | 165 |
C Enclosure and encroachment | 171 |
D Cottage husbandry and peasant wealth | 177 |
E Byemployments | 190 |
F Work wages employers | 195 |
G Domestic life | 207 |
3 The profits of office profession and trade | 50 |
4 The gentry and the enduring qualities of land | 55 |
5 The yeomanry and the opportunities for the capable | 66 |
C The Church | 71 |
b The monastic estate | 72 |
c Monastic estate management | 76 |
152939 | 89 |
d The Crown takes over | 97 |
e The disposal of monastic lands | 103 |
ii The terms of Crown disposal | 106 |
iii Profits | 110 |
iv The grantees | 117 |
2 The secular clergy | 120 |
Landlords in Wales 15001640 | 122 |
1 The settlement pattern | 123 |
2 Peasant proprietors | 125 |
3 The ancient clanlands | 128 |
4 Tenurial law and custom | 131 |
5 Social change | 135 |
6 Types of freehold estate | 137 |
a Estates of adventitious origin | 138 |
b Privileged estates | 139 |
c The clanland estate of hereditary origin | 140 |
7 The growth of estates and enclosure | 141 |
B THE CHURCH | 146 |
2 The dissolution of the monasteries | 148 |
3 Lay pressure on the secular clergy 153658 | 152 |
4 Economic tensions 15581640 | 154 |
H The changing pattern of labouring life | 219 |
Select bibliography 15001640 | 231 |
Landlords and estate management in England 16401750 | 246 |
b Composition fines and confiscations | 262 |
c The longterm consequences | 272 |
2 Institutional landowners | 281 |
b The Church | 283 |
The evolution of landed society after Restoration | 289 |
2 Demographic factors | 292 |
3 The land market | 297 |
b Piecemeal purchases by substantial owners and moneyed newcomers | 304 |
c Major purchases by substantial owners | 313 |
C The management of estates | 325 |
b Tenanciesatwill | 335 |
c Tenancies from year to year and by lease for years | 339 |
d The conditions of rackrent leases | 341 |
e Rents and the terms of tenancy | 351 |
f The importance of leases | 355 |
2 Beyond the formal agreement | 357 |
b Positive action to support the rental | 359 |
c Landlords cottagers and the provision of employment | 363 |
d Different landlords different approaches | 368 |
3 Landlords investment in their estates | 372 |
Landlords and estate management in Wales 16401750 | 379 |
Select bibliography 16401750 | 425 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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