The Ford Lectures - After the Black Death: A new equilibrium, c.1375-1400
The economic downturn of the mid-1370s and the easing of social tensions after 1381 are held to represent a watershed, after which English society finally settled into a post-plague equilibrium. This interpretation is not readily reconciled with evidence from the late 1380s for continuing economic turbulence, heightened anxiety about how to deal with the shortage of labour, and renewed social conflict.
Date:
15 February 2019, 17:00 (Friday, 5th week, Hilary 2019)
Venue:
Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details:
South School
Speaker:
Professor Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia)
Organising department:
Faculty of History
Part of:
The James Ford Lectures - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Laura Spence
