TY - BOOK AU - Postan, M. M. TI - Essays on medieval agriculture and general problems of the medieval economy SN - 0521087449 AV - HC41 .P67 U1 - 940.31 PY - 1973/// CY - Cambridge [Eng.] PB - University Press KW - Economic history KW - Medieval, 500-1500 KW - Agricultural industries England, c.1200-1500. Essays N1 - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references; Machine derived contents note: Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. General: 1. The economic foundations of medieval economy; 2. The rise of a money economy; 3. The fifteenth century; 4. Some social consequences of the Hundred Years War; 5. The costs of the Hundred Years War; 6. Why was science backward in the Middle Ages?; Part II. Agrarian: 7. The chronology of labour services; 8. The charters of the villeins; 9. Heriots and prices on Winchester manors with statistical notes on Winchester heriots by J. Longden; 10. Some agrarian evidence of a declining population in the later Middle Ages; 11. Village livestock in the thirteenth century; 12. Glastonbury estates in the twelfth century; 13. Legal status and economic condition in medieval villages; Index UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0916/72093135-t.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0916/72093135-d.html ER -