Tracing regional and local changes in population and wealth during the later middle ages using taxation records: Cambridgeshire, 1334-1563

Local Population Studies

Volumn , Issue 69, 2002, Pages 32-50

  Lee, John S ^a  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

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DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; INCOME; MIDDLE AGES; POPULATION DECLINE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0036768489     PISSN: 01432974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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