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A Marginal Economy?
Mark Bailey
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East Anglian Breckland in the Later Middle Ages
出版Cambridge University Press, 1989-06-29
主題Business & Economics / Economic ConditionsBusiness & Economics / Economic HistoryBusiness & Economics / Industries / AgribusinessHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / MedievalSocial Science / Sociology / Rural
ISBN05213650159780521365017
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uhA9AAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋A theory of the margin has long featured in the work of medieval historians. Marginal regions are taken to be those of poor soil or geographical remoteness, where farmers experienced particular difficulties in grain production. It is argued that such regions were cultivated only when demographic pressure intensified in the thirteenth century, but that a combination of soil exhaustion and demographic decline resulted in severe economic contraction by the end of the fourteenth century. Marginal regions are seen not just as sensitive barometers of economic change but as important catalysts in that change. Despite the importance placed by historians on the general theory of the margin, this book represents the first detailed study of a 'marginal region'. It focuses upon East Anglian Breckland, whose blowing sands are among the most barren soils in lowland England. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, this study reconstructs Breckland's late medieval economy, and shows it to be more diversified and resilient than the stereotype depicted in marginal theory.