Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Christopher Dyer. Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520. (The New Economic History of Britain.) New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 403. $35.00. ISBN 0-300-09060-9.

Christopher Dyer's Making a Living in the Middle Ages is the second volume to appear in "The New Economic History of Britain" series. It is also the first attempt at a synthetic, state-of-the-art, one-volume survey of medieval British economic history aimed at students and non-specialists to appear in many years, since J. L. Bolton's in 1980 and the comparable ...

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