TY - BOOK ID - 118336006 TI - Medieval Suffolk : an economic and social history, 1200-1500 PY - 2007 SN - 1282185667 9786612185663 1846155711 1843833158 PB - Woodbridge, UK ; New York : Boydell Press, DB - UniCat KW - Suffolk (England) KW - Great Britain KW - History. KW - Economic conditions. KW - History KW - Social conditions. KW - County of Suffolk (England) KW - Suffolk KW - HISTORY / Medieval. KW - Black Death. KW - Cloth Manufacture. KW - Dairying. KW - Economic History. KW - Economy. KW - English Regions. KW - Fishing. KW - Great Famine. KW - Industrialized Region. KW - Late Medieval. KW - Medieval Suffolk. KW - Peasants' Revolt. KW - Social History. KW - Society. KW - Tanning. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118336006 AB - The first volume in what will become the definitive history of Suffolk looks at how the county survived the three most tumultuous events of the period, the Great Famine, the Black Death and the Peasants' Revolt, to emerge as one of the richest English regions. The late middle ages were without doubt the most interesting period in Suffolk's history. By the end of the eleventh century Suffolk was wealthy, densely populated, highly commercialised and urbanised; in the fourteenth century its people faced three of the most tumultuous events of the last millennium, the Great Famine (1315-22), the Black Death (1349) and the Peasants' Revolt (1381). Their response was flexible and innovative, because by 1500 Suffolk was one of the richest and most industrialised regions of England, with a strong economy based on cloth manufacture, fishing, dairying and tanning. ER -