List of Plates.
List of Maps.
Preface.
Introduction.
1. The Land.
2. The People: Rural Society.
3. The People: Towns and Traders.
4. The Church.
5. Culture.
6. Government and Administration.
7. Politics.
8. England and the Wider World.
Conclusion.
Appendix 1: Selective Family Trees.
Appendix 2: Chronology.
Bibliography.
Index.
Sandra Raban is Fellow in History at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and formerly lectured at Homerton College. She is the author of Mortmain Legislation and the English Church, 1279-1500 (1982) and a number of studies on the 1279-80 hundred rolls. She is now working on an edition of the registers of the late-thirteenth- and early-fourteenth-century abbots of Peterborough.
"Economic and social history can, it must be said, be a dry
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