Medieval Suffolk: An Economic and Social History, 1200-1500

MARK BAILEY was recently High Master of St Paul's School, London, and a visiting fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was previously a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and is now the Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. His numerous publications include Medieval Suffolk. An economic and social history 1200-1500 (2007) and After the Black Death. Economy, society and the law in fourteenth-century England (2021).

• IntroductionLandlords and their Estates, 1200-1349Peasants and their Lifestyles, 1200-1349The Agrarian Economy, 1200-1349The Suffolk Landscape, 1200-1349Towns and the Urban EnvironmentCommerce, Crafts and IndustryPestilence, Rebellion and Villeinage, 1349-1500The Rural Economy, 1350-1500`The World Turned Upside Down': Rural Society, 1350-1500Towns, Trade and Industry, 1350-1500Conclusion

Breaks new ground as well as offering an accessible synthesis for the general reader. [...] The book's great triumph, and the thing that will make it invaluable to teachers and students of medieval society generally, is the balancing of the regional against the national.