Medieval Antecedents of English Agricultural Progress

Bruce M.S. Campbell is Professor of Medieval Economic History at the School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, The Queen's University of Belfast, UK.

• Contents: Introduction. Progressiveness and backwardness in 13th- and early 14th-century English agriculture: the verdict of recent research; Agricultural progress in medieval England: some evidence from eastern Norfolk; Arable productivity in medieval England: some evidence from Norfolk; Land, labour, livestock, and productivity trends in English seignorial agriculture, 1208-1450; A new perspective on medieval and early modern agriculture: 6 centuries of Norfolk farming c1250-c1850 (with Mark Overton); Norfolk livestock farming 1250-1740: a comparative study of manorial accounts and probate inventories (with Mark Overton); Commercial dairy production on medieval English demesnes: the case of Norfolk; Measuring the commercialisation of seigneurial agriculture circa 1300; Matching supply to demand: crop production and disposal by English demesnes in the century of the Black Death; Constraint or constrained? changing perspectives on medieval English agriculture; Index

’Although some of Campbell’s findings have been amended or amplified by subsequent research, none of the papers in this remarkably coherent collection appears outdated, and despite some inevitable overlap can usefully be read together by historians interested in longterm agricultural progress and technological change.’ English Historical Review ’...this is a well-produced collection of essays in which all medieval agricultural historians will find much of interest.’ Economic History Review