1st Edition

Economic Growth (Routledge Revivals) England in the Later Middle Ages

By A. R. Bridbury Copyright 1962
116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1962, this book challenges the notion that the later Middle Ages failed to sustain the economic growth of earlier centuries, suggesting that historians have been preoccupied with absolute levels of output over more important questions of output per head. It also argues they have ignored the disastrous fall in living standards in the thirteenth century and the astonishing rise... Read more

List of Graphs and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Chapter I II III IV V VI; Appendices; I Civic Loans II The Taxes of 1334 and 1524 III Some Examples of Urban Change; Index

Biography

A. R. Bridbury