Scholars from various disciplines have long debated why western Europe in general, and England in particular, led the transition from feudalism to capitalism. T

Incorporating original archival research and a series of critiques of recent accounts of economic development in pre-modern England, in The Origin of Capitalism

Essays exploring the potential of the Inquisitions post mortem to shed important new light on the medieval world.

Essays on the connections between politics and society in the middle ages, showing their interdependence.

In this book, Mark Bailey provides a comprehensive survey of the economy and society of late medieval Suffolk.