A Country Merchant, 1495-1520 by Dyer, Christopher -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Contents List of Maps and Figures List of Tables Abbreviations Locating Places Mentioned in this Book A Note on Weights and Measures 1. Introduction: Living in 1495–1520

Population and Resources The Transition to Capitalism Institutions Commercialization Social Restructuring Sources

2. Family and Household: John Heritage and his Contemporaries

John Heritage and his Family The Heritage Family in Context

3. John Heritage’s Country

The Landscape of Heritage’s Country Links and Resemblances Towns and Communications Conclusion

4. John Heritage’s Wool Business

Accounting Making Contact with the Suppliers Buying and Selling Wool Paying for Commerce The Trajectory of the Business

5. Pasture, Sheep, Wool, and People

Peopling the Land Grazing the Land Deserted Village Sites Using Pasture Demesnes and Pasture Peasants and Pasture A Profile of Wool Producers Conclusion

6. Beyond the Account Book: Changing the Countryside

Lordship Peasantry Labour Conclusion Postscript: Signs of growth

7. Individuals and Communities

John Heritage the Individual Individual and Collective Religious Practice Town and Village Communities Conclusion

Conclusion Appendix 1. Sample pages from the account book Appendix 2. Tables of gathered wool, Heritage’s own wool, and wool prices Appendix 3. Deserted villages Bibliography Index

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