Decision-Making in Medieval Agriculture

by David Stone and David Stone

This fascinating and important book uses a wealth of contemporary sources to reconstruct the mental world of medieval farmers and, by doing so, argues that there has been a stereotypical interpretation of the middle ages. David Stone overturns the traditional view of medieval countrymen as economically backward and instead reveals that agricultural decision-making was as rational in the fouteenth century as in modern times. Investigating agricultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199247765
• ISBN13: 9780199247769
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"