Britain and Ireland 1050-1530

Richard Britnell is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Durham. He has written extensively on this period of British history.

• Introduction ; PRELIMINARIES ; 1. Material resources and economic constraints ; 2. Culture and economic constraints ; 3. Power and economic constraints ; 4. Contours of development ; 5. Britain and Ireland in the later eleventh century ; 1050 - 1300 ; 6. Merchants and their trade ; 7. Towns, industry and local trade ; 8. Rural settlement and society ; 9. Arable husbandry ; 10. Pasture husbandry ; 11. Lords and tenants ; 12. Government ; 13. Procedural routines and the uses of literacy ; 14. Stability and Crisis ; 15. Britain and Ireland in the early fourteenth century ; 1300 - 1530 ; 16. Merchants and their trade ; 17. Towns, industry and local trade ; 18. Rural settlement and society ; 19. Arable husbandry ; 20. Pastoral husbandry ; 21. Landlords and tenants ; 22. Government ; 23. Procedural routines and the uses of literacy ; 24. Stability and Crisis ; 25. Britain and Ireland in the early sixteenth century ; Bibliography of primary sources ; Index

...a superb textbook covering the economy of the British Isles from 1050 to 1530...What makes this book so valuable [...is] its comprehensiveness and sure-footed approach throughout...the book is likely to be the standard work on the topic for many years to come...a tour de force of intelligent assessment and penetrating insight.