MEDIEVAL SUFFOLK An Economic and Social History 1200-1500

Softcover. The History of Suffolk Volume 1. 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 11th century Suffolk was wealthy, densely populated, highly commercialised and urbanised; in the 14th 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. Illus., Maps, Tables, Note on Currency and Units of Measurement, Bibliog. and Index. 328pp. trade size soft cover. F. with no creasing to covers.