About the Author\nPeter L. Larson, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Central Florida\nPeter L. Larson received his PhD from Rutgers in 2004 and holds MA degrees from Durham University and the Catholic University of America. He is an associate professor at the University of Central Florida and has been chair of the History Department since 2016. He is the author of Conflict and Compromise in the Late Medieval Countryside: Lords and Peasants in Durham, 1349-1400 (2006). His research centres on the social and economic history of County Durham in the late medieval and early modern periods.\nThis case study of two rural parishes in County Durham, England, provides an alternate view on the economic development involved in the transition from medieval to modern, partly explaining England's rise to global economic dominance in the seventeenth century. Coal mining did not come to these parishes until the nineteenth century; these are an example of agrarian expansion. Low population, favourable seigniorial administration, and a commercialised society saw the emergence of large farms on the bishopric of Durham soon after the Black Death; these secure copyhold and leasehold tenures were among the earliest known in England. Individualism developed within a strong parish and village community that encouraged growth while enforcing conformity: tenants had freedom to farm as they wished, within limits. Along with low rents, this allowed for a swift expansion of agricultural production in the sixteenth century as population rose and then as the coal trade expanded rapidly. The 
prosperity of these men is reflected in their lands, livestock, and consumer goods. Yet not all shared in this prosperity, as the poor and landless increased in number simply by population growth. Through reformation and rebellion, these and other parishes prospered without experiencing severe disruption or destruction. In north-eastern England, agrarian development was an evolution and not a revolution. This study shows England's economic development as a single narrative, woven together from a collection of regional experiences at different times and at different speeds.

Rethinking the Great Transition: Community and Economic Growth in County Durham, 1349-1660

Business & Money

Larson, Peter L.

Economics

Oxford University Press

Conflict and Compromise in the Late Medieval Countryside (Studies in Medieval History and Culture)

Larson examines the changing relations between lords and peasants in post-Black Death Durham. This was a time period of upheaval and change, part of the transition from ‘medieval’ to ‘modern.’ Many historians have argued about the nature of this change and its causes, often putting forth a single all-encompassing model; Larson presses for the importance of individual choice and action, resulting in a flexible, human framework that provides a more appropriate explanation for the many paths followed in this period. The theoretical side is balanced by an ‘on the ground’ examination of rural life in Durham-- an attempt to capture the raw emotions and decisions of the period. No one has really examined this; most studies are speculative, relying on theory or statistics, rather than tracing the history of real people, both in the immediate aftermath of the plague, and in the longer term. Durham is fortunate in that records survive in abundance for this period; most other studies of rural society end at 1300 or 1348. As such, this book fills a major gap in medieval English history while at the same time grappling with major theories of change for this transformative period.

Conflict and Compromise in the Late Medieval Countryside: Lords and Peasants in Durham, 1349-1400 (Studies in Medieval History and Culture)

Reference

Routledge

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Ammonites and the Other Cephalopods of the Pierre Seaway: Identification Guide

Science & Math

Larson, Peter

Farrar, R.A.

Larson, Neil L.

Jorgensen, Steven D.

Larson, Neal L

Farrar, Robert A

Biological Sciences

Geoscience Pr

Bones Rock! (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

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