Famine and scarcity in late medieval and early modern England: the regulation of grain marketing, 1256-1631

Surveying government and crowd responses ranging from the late Middle Ages through to the early modern era, Buchanan Sharp's illuminating study examines how the English government responded to one of the most intractable problems of the period: famine and scarcity. The book provides a comprehen...

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1. Verfasser: Sharp, Buchanan 1942- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2016
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Zusammenfassung:Surveying government and crowd responses ranging from the late Middle Ages through to the early modern era, Buchanan Sharp's illuminating study examines how the English government responded to one of the most intractable problems of the period: famine and scarcity. The book provides a comprehensive account of famine relief in the late Middle Ages and evaluates the extent to which traditional market regulations enforced by thirteenth-century kings helped shape future responses to famine and scarcity in the sixteenth century. Analysing some of the oldest surviving archival evidence of public response to famine, Sharp reveals that food riots in England occurred as early as 1347, almost two centuries earlier than was previously thought. Charting the policies, public reactions and royal regulations to grain shortage, Sharp provides a fascinating contribution to our understanding of the social, economic, cultural and political make-up of medieval and early modern England
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 264 pages)
ISBN:9781316401200
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781316401200