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

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

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