Directory of Research and Expertise

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Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

History

Summary of research interests and expertise:

The main project is to complete work on ‘Peasant farming 1200-1540’ which is being funded by the Leverhulme Trust. This is intended to make a new assessment of the types of farming practised by peasants, and to evaluate their role in the economy. In addition publication of various projects in landscape history such as surveys of Admington, Compton Scorpion, Westcote and Bretford in Warwickshire.

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
05-Jan-2019	Pourquoi les paysans anglais etaient-ils consommateure (XIIIe-XVe siecles) Conference papers in G. Ferrand and J. Petrowiste (eds.), Le necessaire et le superflu.Le paysan consommateur (Toulouse, 2019)
05-Jan-2019	The housing of peasant livestock in England, 1200-1520 Articles Agricultural History Review  67 (2019), pp. 29-50
03-Jan-2019	Retaiing in the medieval and early modern worlds Chapters in J. Stobart and V. Howard (eds), The Routledge Companion to the History of Retailing (Abingdon, 2019)
01-Jan-2019	New towns in the middle ages:lessons from Bretford in Warwickshire Articles Transcations of the Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society, 120 (2018), pp. 75-92
01-May-2018	Social mobility in medieval England Chapters  C. Dyer, ‘Social mobility in medieval England’, in S.Carocci and I Lazzarini (eds), Social Mobility in Medieval Italy (1100-1500) (Rome, May 2018), pp.23-43.
02-Apr-2018	Rural living 1100-1540; ‘Town and countryside’ Chapters C. Dyer, ‘Rural living 1100-1540’; ‘Town and countryside’, in C.M. Gerrard and A. Gutierrez (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Archaeology in Britain (Oxford, April, 2018), pp. 193-209; 325-39.
02-Apr-2018	Iron age burials and medieval farm buildings: excavations at Horse and Groom Inn, Bourton-on-the-Hill, 2013 Journal articles C. Dyer, C. Harward, G. Western et al., ‘Iron age burials and medieval farm buildings: excavations at Horse and Groom Inn, Bourton-on-the-Hill, 2013’, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society , 135 (April 2018), pp.155-194.
01-Mar-2018	Open fields in their social and economic context: the west midlands of England Chapters C. Dyer, ‘Open fields in their social and economic context: the west midlands of England’, in C. Dyer, E. Thoen and T. Williamson (eds.), Peasants and Their Fields. The Rationale of Open-Field Agriculture, c.700-1800 (Turnhout, March 2018), pp. 29-47.
01-Mar-2018	Local societies on the move in the middle ages: migration and social mobility in England 1100-1500 Journal articles C. Dyer, ‘Local societies on the move in the middle ages: migration and social mobility in England 1100-1500’, Local Historian, 48 (March 2018), pp.5-18.
01-Mar-2018	Peasants and Their Fields. The Rationale of Open-Field Agriculture Edited Book C. Dyer, E. Thoen and T. Williamson, Peasants and Their Fields. The Rationale of Open-Field Agriculture, c.700-1800 (Turnhout, March 2018)
08-Jan-2018	‘Households great and small: aristocratic styles of life across the social spectrum in England, 1200-1500’, in C.M.Woolgar (ed.), The elite household in England, 1100-1550 (Donington, 2018), pp. 5-28. Conference papers
01-Dec-2017	Introduction to Court Rolls of Romsley 1279-1643 C. Dyer, J. Hunt and M. Hall, ‘Introduction’, in M. Tompkins (ed.), Court Rolls of Romsley 1279-1643 (Worcestershire Historical Society, new series, 27, December 2017), pp. 9-23.
19-Oct-2017	The midland economy and society, 1314-1348: insights from changes in the landscape Journal articles 'The midland economy and society, 1314-1348: insights from changes in the landscape’, Midland History, 42 (2017), pp.36-57.
02-Oct-2017	The origin and early development of the Medieval Settlement Research Group Articles  in Medieval Settlement Research, 32 (October 2017), pp. 1-6.
10-Feb-2017	The Archaeology of the 11th Century: Continuities and Transformations Edited Book (with Dawn Hadley), The Archaeology of the 11th Century: Continuities and Transformations. Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph, 38, 2017.
01-Jan-2017	Tawney and Postan: two pathways to understanding the pre-industrial economy’ Chapters in J. P. Bowen and A.T. Brown (eds.), Custom and Commercialisation in English Rural Society: Revisiting Postan and Tawney (Hatfield, 2016), pp. 23-35
01-Sep-2016	Farmers, Consumers, Innovators. The World of Joan Thirsk Edited Book With Richard Jones (Hatfield, 2016), pp.1-8.
21-Jul-2016	Landscape, farming and society in an English region: the Inquisitions Post Mortem for the West Midlands, 1250-1509 Journal articles  ‘Landscape, farming and society in an English region: the Inquisitions Post Mortem for the West Midlands, 1250-1509’, in M. Hicks (ed.), The Later Medieval Inquisitions Post Mortem. Mapping the Medieval Countryside and Rural Society (Woodbridge, 2016), pp. 59-83.
	Richard Hugh Britnell 1944-2013 Articles ‘Richard Hugh Britnell 1944-2013’, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XV (2016), pp. 2-21
	The rationale of open fields; ‘Conclusion: the rationale of open fields’ Chapters C. Dyer, E. Thoen and T. Williamson,‘The rationale of open fields’; ‘Conclusion: the rationale of open fields’, in C.Dyer, E. Thoen and T. Williamson (eds.), Peasants and Their Fields. The Rationale of Open-Field Agriculture, c.700-1800 (Turnhout, March 2018), pp. 1-4; 257-75.

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