Article: Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain, 850-1520.(Book Review)

Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain, 850-1520, by Christopher Dyer. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2002. viii, 403 pp. $40.00 US (cloth), $20.00 US (paper).

Economic historians come in two kinds: the first seeks to understand economic history as economics, analyzing such topics as the development of markets, the rise and fall of prices and wages, and the circulation of currency because the workings of an economy are inherently important and interesting. The second consists of those who want to understand the economy and economic change as a way to understand people's lives in the past--how economic structures shaped people's ...

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