The Decline of Serfdom in Late Medieval England : From Bondage to Freedom
- Submitting institution
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The University of East Anglia
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 182635695
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Boydell and Brewer
- ISBN
- 978 1 84383 890 6
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- The decline of English serfdom is central to the European ‘transition debate’. This extensive study with six highly detailed case studies charts its decline through an analysis of thousands of documents from 38 manors in the Southern Midlands and East Anglia. Undertaken over two decades in the Norfolk and Suffolk Record Offices and National Archives, this quantitative approach has allowed the author to develop a new methodology and argue serfdom in England declined earlier and more quickly than traditionally assumed, challenging the orthodox explanations for its decline and views about the institutional framework of fourteenth-century economy and society.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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