TY - BOOK ID - 149857676 TI - A Prospering Society : Wiltshire in the Later Middle Ages PY - 2011 SN - 1306102057 1907396594 PB - Chicago : University Of Hertfordshire Press, DB - UniCat KW - American literature -- Bibliography. KW - England -- Bibliography. KW - English literature -- Bibliography. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:149857676 AB - Based on a case study of a particular countryside and town in southern England?namely, the county of Wiltshire and the city of Salisbury?this record seeks to explore the changing nature of English society during the period from 1380 to 1520. It examines the influence of landscape and population on the agriculture of Wiltshire, the regional patterns of arable and pastoral farming, and the growing contrast between the large-scale mixed farming of the chalklands and the family farms of the claylands. Discussing how economic growth generated problems of its own, this study is the first to fully in ER -