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A Social History of England, 1200-1500.(Book review)
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Canadian Journal of History
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December 22, 2007
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2007 Canadian Journal of History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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A Social History of England, 1200-1500, edited by Rosemary Horrox and W. Mark Ormrod. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii, 514 pp. $90.00 US (cloth), $39.99 US (paper).
This volume is a welcome addition to general works on later medieval England, for some time among the most fertile British historiographical fields. It has not always been so. Johan Huizinga's shadow did hang over the later middle ages, but the urgency to study common people kept leading historians to the well-documented era. Eileen Power and H. S. Bennett moved onto this ground long ago and were followed by the more systematic studies of Ambrose Raftis, Rodney Hilton, and Sylvia Thrupp, who ...
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