Bücher von Marjorie Keniston (University of Colorado McIntosh

This study explores the diverse and changing ways in which English women participated in the market economy from 1300 to 1620. Using substantial evidence it challenges both traditional views of this period as a 'golden age' for women's work and more recent critiques of the 'golden age'.

Through an examination of 255 places in England, Professor McIntosh challenges many historical assumptions to demonstrate that concern with wrongdoing mounted gradually between 1370 and 1600. This important study describes how English people defined and attempted to control misbehaviour during the later medieval and early modern periods.

This history of the English royal manor of Havering, Essex, illustrates life at one extreme of the spectrum of personal and collective freedom during the later Middle Ages, revealing the kinds of patterns which could emerge when medieval people were placed in a setting of unusual independence.