THE WICKED AGE
MIDDLE ENGLISH COMPLAINT LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
Suggestions for Further Reading
Here are some suggestions for those who would like to explore the history and culture of late medieval England in greater detail.
Attreed, Lorraine. The King’s Towns: Identity and Survival in Late Medieval English Boroughs. New York: Peter Lang, 2001.
Bainbridge, Virginia R. Gilds in the Medieval Countryside: Social and Religious Change in Cambridgeshire c. 1350-1558. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1996.
Barron, Caroline M. “The Parish Fraternities of Medieval London.” The Church in Pre-Reformation Society: Essays in Honour of F. R. H. Du Boulay. Ed. Caroline M. Barron and Christopher Harper-Bill. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1985.
Bennett, H. S. Life on the English Manor. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1948.
Butcher, A. F. “English Urban Society and the Revolt of 1381.” The English Rising of 1381. Ed. R. H. Hilton and T. H. Aston. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984. 84-111.
Dyer, Christopher. Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England c. 1200-1520. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989.
-----. Everyday Life in Medieval England. London: Hambledon and London, 2000.
-----. Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520. Yale UP, 2002.
-----. “The Social and Economic Background to the Revolt of 1381.” The English Rising of 1381. Ed. R. H. Hilton and T. H. Aston. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984. 9-42.
-----. “English Diet in the Later Middle Ages.” Social Relations and Ideas: Essays in Honour of R. H. Hilton. Ed. T. H. Aston, P. R. Coss, Christopher Dyer, Joan Thirsk. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983. 191-216.
Goldberg, P. J. P. Medieval England: A Social History 1250-1550. London: Hodder Arnold, 2004.
Gorski, Richard. The Fourteenth-century Sheriff: English Local Administration in the Late Middle Ages. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2003.
Hartridge, R. A. R. A History of Vicarages in the Middle Ages. Cambridge UP, 1930. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1968.
Hilton, Rodney. The English Peasantry in the Later Middle Ages. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
----- Class Conflict and the Crisis of Feudalism. 2nd ed. Hambledon Press, 1985. London: Verso, 1990.
-----. Bond Men Made Free: Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381. 1973. London: Routledge, 1988.
Knowles, David. The Religious Orders in England. Vol. I. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1956.
-----. The Religious Orders in England. Vol. II. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1957.
Knowles, David and R. Neville Hadcock. Medieval Religious Houses: England and Wales. Introd. David Knowles. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1971.
Keen, Maurice. England in the Later Middle Ages. London: Routledge, 1973.
Knowles, David. The Religious Orders in England. Vol. I. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1956.
-----. The Religious Orders in England. Vol. II. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1957.
Maddicott, J. R. The English Peasantry and the Demands of the Crown 1294-1341. Past and Present: Supplement 1. Oxford: The Past and Present Society, 1975.
McKisack, May. The Fourteenth Century 1307-1399. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959.
Mollat, Michel. The Poor in the Middle Ages. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. New Haven: Yale UP, 1986.
Penn, Simon A. C. and Christopher Dyer. “Wages and earnings in late medieval England: evidence from the enforcement of the labour laws.” Ecomonic History Review. 2nd ser. XLII (3) (1990): 356-76.
Postan, M. M. The Medieval Economy and Society. Berkeley: U of California P, 1972.
Power, Eileen. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535. Cambridge UP, 1922. New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1964.
Raftis, J. Ambrose. Tenure and Mobility: Studies in the Social History of the Mediaeval English Village. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1964. Rpt. 1981.
Reynolds, Susan. An Introduction to the History of English Medieval Towns. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977.
Southern, R. W. Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages. London: Penguin, 1970.
Tierney, Brian. Medieval Poor Law: A Sketch of Canonical Theory and Its Application in England. Berkeley and Los Angeles: U of California P, 1959.
Tuck, J. A. “Nobles, Commons and the Great Revolt of 1381. The English Rising of 1381. Ed. R. H. Hilton and T. H. Aston. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984. 194-212.
-----. “The Cambridge Parliament, 1388.” The English Historical Review CCCXXXI (April 1969): 225-45.
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