Papers from the Interdisciplinary Conference on the Fourteenth Century held at the University of York in July 1998.

This series provides a forum for the most recent research into the political, social and ecclesiastical history of the 14th century.

The essays collected here present the fruits of the most recent research on aspects of the history, politics and culture of England during the long' fourteenth

Essays on labour, servitude and slavery refocus attention on the mundane working world of the middle ages.

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