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...Constance Hoffman Berman Manors and Markets: Economy and Society in the Low Countries, 300–1600 . By Bas van Bavel . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . 512 pp., $40.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-1987-8375-6 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 581...

...William D. Shannon Abstract English medieval law assumed there was no land without a lord and that the normal landholding was the manor, held directly or indirectly of the Crown. However, it is clear that at an early period much wasteland was held at a higher level, as a resource to be shared...

... Journal16 ( 1991 ): 7 D. L. Farmer , "Two Wiltshire Manors and their Markets," Agricultural History Review37, Pt. 1 ( 1989 ): 2 D. L. Farmer , "Marketing the Produce of the Countryside, 12001500," in The Agrarian History of England and Wales , vol. 3 : 1348 -1500, ed., E...

.... Stern's work is an in-depth study of the demesne lands of one manor of Westminster Abbey from 1273 through 1397. In contrast to historians attempting to identify broad agricultural trends by studying exclusively one aspect of production across several estates, Stern believed that one had to look at every...

... manors normally excluded from such studies), allowing Bailey to draw conclusions about the role played by lordship and geography in the decline of serfdom. This book further emphasizes the complexity of the medieval economy, demonstrating the interplay between a range of factors in the decline of serfdom...

...-6. This book, the first full-length study of peasant credit in medieval England, offers a detailed and intelligent view into a complex and developing area of study. As Chris Briggs points out in his succinct introduction, extensive work on rural credit, at the level of the village and the manor...

... on rural credit, at the level of the village and the manor court, has been relatively scarce, with significant contributions appearing only in recent years. Informed by such work but also aiming to locate it within a wider European perspective as well as seeking to challenge what the author at least...

... © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Call for Papers TOWN AND COUNTRY Agricultural History Society 2016 Annual Conference The Agricultural History Society invites paper proposals for the 2016 Annual Meeting to be held in New York City and Briarcliff Manor, New York, June 23 25, 2016...

... for present-day land policy. How people responded to government alteration of land use by law and policy features in John Beckett's chapter on opposition to parliamentary enclosure of agricultural manors in the eighteenth century and Nicola Verdon's piece on the food production campaign (bringing more acreage...

..., consequently provides a valuable corrective. By combining an overview of the management of the whole estate with a detailed analysis of one of its well-documented manors, Wells-Furby reveals how the patrimonial responsibility of the Berkeleys influenced both their broad administrative strategies...

... choice for the series. Stern's work is an in-depth study of the demesne lands of one manor of Westminster Abbey from 1273 through 1397. In contrast to historians attempting to identify broad agricultural trends by studying exclusively one aspect of production across several estates, Stern believed...

..., count of Boos-Waldeck, Nassau Plantation s founder, saw little problem, viewing slaves as analogous to tenants and the Big House as an American iteration of the manor house. His successor, Carl, prince of Solms-Braunfels, on the other hand, had great misgivings, especially after observing...

... and the role of lordship in tenurial systems. Five of these studies comprise a detailed analysis of a small community usually a manor or village. The sixth is a study of double barreled place names and the implications this has for the students of people and places. Once again the geographical range...

... it was less often the village green than land on the edges of manors and between villages and hamlets. Winchester rightly ignores the common rights of open field arable systems and water meadows before the nineteenth century, since they would complicate already complex issues. This leaves the ways in which...

... at Bective Cistercian abbey in County Meath. she looks at a number of other monasteries (including kilbeggan, Boyle, and Baltinglass) in a discussion of the Cistercian grange, showing the massive impact the order had on farming in ireland. Murphy examines the anglo-norman manor, another economic...

... land use and trade rela? tions; peasant land clearance and agriculture; the seigneurs' organization of space, both in choosing the sites of manor houses or mills or, as was the case for the Hale family in the nineteenth century, in attempting to impose Book Reviews / 129 an English landscape...

... the way for future research. Three other chapters have a common theme of courts and the law. These range from harold Garrett-Goodyear s work on manor courts in early Tudor england to christopher Brooks s evaluation of the agrarian problem in revolutionary england, where he recommends a rather radical...

... a common theme of courts and the law. These range from harold Garrett-Goodyear s work on manor courts in early Tudor england to christopher Brooks s evaluation of the agrarian problem in revolutionary england, where he recommends a rather radical solution to the current debate. The third, 445 ...

... attitudes toward slavery. In keeping with recent trends, he finds that they held a range of views. Some, such as Joseph, count of Boos-Waldeck, Nassau Plantation s founder, saw little problem, viewing slaves as analogous to tenants and the Big House as an American iteration of the manor house. His successor...

... fundamentally, the combination of estate overview and single case study reveals missed opportunities. For instance, wool production was by far the most important element in the estate s pastoral economy; however, as sheep were kept on manors other than Ham, the management and productivity of the Berkeley...