An Age of Transition? —— Economy and Society in England in the Later Middle Ages

----- 衰老的基因 ：后中世纪英国经济和社会发展

ISBN: 9780199215263 出版年：2005 页码：304 Dyer, Christopher Oxford University Press

Christopher Dyer examines the transition in the economy and society of England between 1250 and 1550. Using new sources of evidence, he demonstrates that important structural changes after 1350 built on the commercial growth of the thirteenth century. He shows that development of individual property, response to new consumption patterns, and use of credit and investment, came from the peasantry rather than the aristocracy, and reveals how England was set on course to become the 'first industrial nation'.