The present generation of economic historians is probably the first to approach mediaeval economy with the same questions which have hitherto been considered proper to the study of modern economy: the growth and decline of economic activity, the qualities and mobilities of economic resources, and more especially the course of investment, the move- ments of population, the fluctuations of output an [...] The county boundaries were to embrace the major concentration of abbey properties: along with scattered holdings in the west and southern portions of the county, these properties of the abbey came to occupy nearly the whole of the eastern of the four hundreds. [...] The 300 families of the Sweord Ora could be easily scattered along the old course of the Nene and the northern boundary of the present county divisions; the 1,200 families of the Herefinna would more likely be found scattered along the easily cultivable banks of some 30 miles of the Ouse river together with its tributaries, rather than limited to the area of the modern Hurstingstone hundred. [...] Nevertheless, by the very magnitude of the arrangements necessary for the endowment of the abbey, there cannot fail to be exposed an important cross-section of the social and economic structure of the time. [...] Although it is of twelfth-century vintage, the compilation of the Chronicon from the Anglo-Saxon charters has been readily ascertained.39 More recent scientific investigation has drawn attention to the manipulation of some original charter forms, in particular the royal writs of privilege and liberties, but the genuineness of the main substance of the materials in even these more suspect charters
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Table of Contents
- Table Of Contents 8
- Preface 10
- Introduction 12
- List of Tables and Appendices 16
- List of Abbreviations 20
- List of Abbots of Ramsey 21
- Chapter One — The First Century 22
- Chapter Two — Twelfth-Century Tenurial Settlement 44
- Chapter Three — Rent Movements in the Twelfth Century 82
- Chapter Four — Administrative Reform and Economic Organization 118
- Chapter Five — Manorial Statistics —-I: Livestock 150
- Chapter Six — Manorial Statistics — II: Corn 180
- Chapter Seven — Manorial Statistics — III: Work, Wages, and Prices 212
- Chapter Eight — Retrenchment in Arable Production and Organized Stability in Manorial Revenues 238
- Chapter Nine — Adjustments after the Black Death and the Organization of a New Level of Demesne Production 272
- Chapter Ten — Fifteenth-Century Depression and the End of the Demesne Economy 302
- Index 354
- A 354
- B 354
- C 355
- D 356
- E 356
- F 356
- G 357
- H 357
- I 358
- J 358
- K 358
- L 358
- M 358
- N 359
- O 359
- P 359
- Q 360
- R 360
- S 360
- T 361
- U 361
- V 361
- W 361
- Y 362
- MAPS 41
- I — Agrarian Properties of Ramsey Abbey in 1086 41
- II — Some Huntingdon Woodlands in 1086 93
