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Bringing It All Together: Medieval English Economic History in Transition - The Agrarian History of England and Wales. Edited by Joan Thirsk. Vol. 2: 1042–1350. Edited by H. E. Hallam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xxxix + 1086. $135.00. - The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate. By Kathleen Biddick. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989. Pp. xvii + 230. $30.00. - Towns and Townspeople in the Fifteenth Century. Edited by John A. F. Thomson. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1988. Pp. xiii + 192. $28.00. - The 1341 Royal Inquest in Lincolnshire. Edited by Bernard William McLane. Lincoln Record Society Publications, vol. 78. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, for the Lincoln Record Society, 1988. Pp. xxxiii + 202. $37.00.

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John Langdon
John Langdon*
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University of Alberta, Edmonton
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 1991 , pp. 209 - 216
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7 Marketing, however, is to be covered for the period in volume 3, soon to be published.

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12 Dyer, pp. 17–18; Watkins, pp. 17–18.

13 Maddicott.

14 Ibid., pp. 301, 318. 338.

15 For example, in 1338 Thomas Dunstable was ordered to collect just under eight thousand quarters of grains and malts from seventeen counties, including Lincolnshire (p. xii). This would have consumed the crops from ten to fifteen square miles of land, a tiny fraction of the crop acreage in the counties concerned.

16 We are more familiar with the last in the Anglo-Saxon period, thanks to the work of Richard Hodges, but the approach is also beginning to penetrate the later period: e.g., Biddick, Kathleen, “People and Things: Power in Early English Development,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 32 (1990): 3–23CrossRefGoogle Scholar.