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Walter of Henley's Husbandry, together with an anonymous Husbandry, Seneschaucie, and Robert Grosseteste's Rules

Walter of Henley's Husbandry, together with an anonymous Husbandry, Seneschaucie, and Robert Grosseteste's Rules

Cunningham, W.

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AgricultureGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9389169135
ISBN13: 9789389169133
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Step onto a thirteenth-century manor and listen to the people who ran it. Ploughs, rents, and real power. Walter of Henley's Husbandry, together with an anonymous Husbandry, Seneschaucie, and Robert Grosseteste's Rules gathers some of the most practical voices in English agrarian history into one complete source collection. Edited by W. Cunningham as an annotated scholarly edition, these medieval husbandry treatise texts map the working year of medieval farming practices: soils and seed, livestock and labour, yields and obligations. Alongside fieldcraft sits the hard logic of manorial estate management, from manorial accounts and surveys to the everyday pressures of profit, risk, and discipline across medieval English manors. Seneschaucie sharpens the view further, setting out seneschal and steward duties with a manager's eye for staffing, stores, and order. Read as instruction, it is also social history, revealing how power was measured in acres, output, and compliance. Its guidance on hiring, storage, and surveillance speaks to a developing managerial culture that underpinned medieval English manors. For the curious reader, the prose is brisk and tangible; for collectors, it is a key witness to the administrative literature that helped shape later rural economics in England at large. For readers of economic history research and medieval studies reference, this is a cornerstone of thirteenth-century England: direct, unsentimental, and vividly useful. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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