Population change in medieval Warwickshire: Domesday book to the hundred rolls of 1279-1280

Local Population Studies

Volumn , Issue 59, 1997, Pages 41-53

  John, Trevor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; DOMESDAY BOOK; MEDIEVAL; POPULATION CHANGE;

UK, ENGLAND, WARWICKSHIRE;

EID: 0031419387     PISSN: 01432974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (55)

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2. R. M. Smith, 'Demographic developments in rural England 1300-48: a survey', in B. M. S. Campbell ed., Before the Black Death: studies in the crisis of the early fourteenth century, (Manchester, 1991), 39.
3. Stoneleigh, a hundred in Domesday Book, later became a sub-leet of Knighlow hundred.
4. For a summary of the debate on Postan's thesis see B. F. Harvey, 'Introduction: The crisis of the early fourteenth century', in Campbell, Before the Black Death, 1-24.
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9. Philip Morgan, however, believes 'it is probably wise to think of these listings of people rather as holdings than individuals, heads of household or families' (P. Morgan, Domesday Book and the local historian, (London, 1988), 22-3). If he is right my reduction of holdings to tenants would not be necessary.
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15. Warmington, Arlescote, Kingston, Shotteswell and Bruton.
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46. I have taken the parish acreages from Francis White & Co., History, gazetteer and directory of Warwickshire, (Sheffield, 1850) on the assumption that they were closer to the medieval areas than those given in the Victoria county history of Warwickshire, II (London, 1904), 187-92.
47. I have taken the parish acreages from Francis White & Co., History, gazetteer and directory of Warwickshire, (Sheffield, 1850) on the assumption that they were closer to the medieval areas than those given in the Victoria county history of Warwickshire, II (London, 1904), 187-92.
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