Peterborough Abbey 1086–1310

The operation of the land market is a topic of crucial importance to the student of economic and social history in the Middle Ages.

King (Author)

9780521079471, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 25 August 2008

228 pages
21.6 x 14.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.3 kg

The operation of the land market is a topic of crucial importance to the student of economic and social history in the Middle Ages. In this book, Dr King uses a wide range of source material to examine the character of the land market on the estates of Peterborough Abbey in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He suggests that some common pattern emerges in the behaviour of those concerned, and offers an original interpretation of certain familiar types of medieval record.

1. The First Two Centuries, 966–1166
2. The Knights of Peterborough
3. The Development of Freehold
4. The Colonisation of Northamptonshire
5. The Endowment of the Obedientiaries
6. Carte Nativorum
7. The Administration of the Estate
8. The Organisation of the Estate
9. Conclusion.

Subject Areas: History [HB]