Storage in medieval England: the evidence from purveyance accounts, 1295-13491
Jordan Claridge|John Langdon
As a contribution to the long-running debate concerning extent and motivation of medieval storage, this article uses purveyance accounts examine such facilities in England prior Black Death. Three hundred fifteen cases predominantly urban storage were recorded for 97 communities products agriculture purchased by purveyors, mostly threshed grains. When these 315 analysed using an Excel database, it was found that, contrast often magnificent barns on monastic other lordly estates, much smaller informal, indistinguishable, seems, from domestic families themselves. modest as was, however, likely played important role increasing commercialization England, even perhaps making society at time more susceptible subsistence crises.
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