Chapter Material inequalities in England, c. 1290 - c. 1340
England c. 1300 was clearly an unequal society, yet assessing its distribution of wealth and income and levels of poverty with precision is not straightforward. Households earned their living by combining different sources of income that are hard to identify, especially for the mass of smallholders...
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| description | England c. 1300 was clearly an unequal society, yet assessing its distribution of wealth and income and levels of poverty with precision is not straightforward. Households earned their living by combining different sources of income that are hard to identify, especially for the mass of smallholders and landless. This article reviews recent attempts to estimate inequality in this period. It argues that such exercises provide a helpful general guide to the distribution of wealth and income, but at the micro-level it can be misleading to focus on either land or movable goods in isolation. The article provides some new evidence drawn from the royal archive and manorial sources concerning the material circumstances of individuals and households. These fragments help to qualify some of the pessimism concerning the share of households living at or below the poverty line at the end of the thirteenth century. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1634392025-08-02T05:08:42Z Chapter Material inequalities in England, c. 1290 - c. 1340 Briggs, Chris Middle Ages c. 1290 - c. 1340 England households material inequality England c. 1300 was clearly an unequal society, yet assessing its distribution of wealth and income and levels of poverty with precision is not straightforward. Households earned their living by combining different sources of income that are hard to identify, especially for the mass of smallholders and landless. This article reviews recent attempts to estimate inequality in this period. It argues that such exercises provide a helpful general guide to the distribution of wealth and income, but at the micro-level it can be misleading to focus on either land or movable goods in isolation. The article provides some new evidence drawn from the royal archive and manorial sources concerning the material circumstances of individuals and households. These fragments help to qualify some of the pessimism concerning the share of households living at or below the poverty line at the end of the thirteenth century. 2025-08-02T05:08:41Z 2025-08-02T05:08:41Z 2025-08-01T15:53:40Z 2025 chapter ONIX_20250801T173835_9791221507058_219 2704-6079 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/104769 9791221507058 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/163439 eng Reti Medievali E-Book open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104769/1/44809.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0705-8.04 10.36253/979-12-215-0705-8.04 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9791221507058 27 Florence open access |
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| title | Chapter Material inequalities in England, c. 1290 - c. 1340 |
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| title_short | Chapter Material inequalities in England, c. 1290 - c. 1340 |
| title_sort | chapter material inequalities in england c 1290 c 1340 |
| topic | Middle Ages c. 1290 - c. 1340 England households material inequality |
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