Rural Economy of EnglandNo one has done more to emphasise the significance of the land in early modern England that Joan Thirsk, whose writings are both an important contribution to its history and point the way for future research. The subjects of this collection include the origin and nature of the common fields, Tudor enclosures, the Commonwealth confiscation of Royalist land and its subsequent return after the Restoration, inheritance customs, and the role of industries in the rural economy, among them stocking knitting. |
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The Origin of the Common Fields | 59 |
Tudor Enclosures | 65 |
The Sales of Royalist Land during the Interregnum | 85 |
The Restoration Land Settlement | 109 |
Industries in the Countryside | 217 |
The Fantastical Folly of Fashion the English Stocking Knitting Industry 15001700 | 235 |
New Crops and their Diffusion TobaccoGrowing in SeventeenthCentury England | 259 |
Projects for Gentlemen Jobs for the Poor Mutual Aid in the Vale of Tewkesbury 16001630 | 287 |
Stamford in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries | 309 |
The Family | 327 |
Younger Sons in the Seventeenth Century | 335 |
The European Debate on Customs of Inheritance 15001700 | 359 |
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