Taxation, warfare, and the early fourteenth century 'crisis' in the north: Cumberland lay subsidies, 1332-1348

Economic History Review

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 639-672

  Briggs, Chris ^a  

^a Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC HISTORY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; TAX SYSTEM; WAR;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33747050646     PISSN: 00130117     EISSN: 14680289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2005.00317.x     Document Type: Article

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