Britain and Ireland 1050-1530

Richard Britnell is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Durham. He has written extensively on this period of British history.

...a superb textbook covering the economy of the British Isles from 1050 to 1530...What makes this book so valuable [...is] its comprehensiveness and sure-footed approach throughout...the book is likely to be the standard work on the topic for many years to come...a tour de force of intelligent assessment and penetrating insight.

• Introduction ; PRELIMINARIES ; 1. Material resources and economic constraints ; 2. Culture and economic constraints ; 3. Power and economic constraints ; 4. Contours of development ; 5. Britain and Ireland in the later eleventh century ; 1050 - 1300 ; 6. Merchants and their trade ; 7. Towns, industry and local trade ; 8. Rural settlement and society ; 9. Arable husbandry ; 10. Pasture husbandry ; 11. Lords and tenants ; 12. Government ; 13. Procedural routines and the uses of literacy ; 14. Stability and Crisis ; 15. Britain and Ireland in the early fourteenth century ; 1300 - 1530 ; 16. Merchants and their trade ; 17. Towns, industry and local trade ; 18. Rural settlement and society ; 19. Arable husbandry ; 20. Pastoral husbandry ; 21. Landlords and tenants ; 22. Government ; 23. Procedural routines and the uses of literacy ; 24. Stability and Crisis ; 25. Britain and Ireland in the early sixteenth century ; Bibliography of primary sources ; Index