Spencer Dimmock
Biographical Note
Spencer Dimmock, Ph.D. (1999), University of Kent at Canterbury, is an independent historian. He has published many studies on England and Wales, including The Origin of Capitalism in England, 1400–1600 (Brill, 2014).
Readership
All students and specialists in social sciences, humanities, archaeology (including ecology, geography). The book is also accessible for the general reader and would be of interest to both academic and public libraries.
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
1 The Political Context of England’s Second Domesday
2 The Source
2 Before the Second Domesday
1 John Russell and John Rous
2 Forced Expropriation and the Decline of Serfdom
3 Accumulation and the Remodelling of Manorial Estates before 1488
3 England’s Second Domesday: 1488–1517
1 The Southern Midlands
2 The Rest of England
4 After the Second Domesday
1 Introduction
2 Yorkshire and the North of England
3 The Enclosure Commissions and the Risings of 1548–49
4 The ‘Midland Rising’ of 1607
5 Conclusion
Appendix: A Translation of England’s Second Domesday of 1517–18 and Related Enclosure Commissions
1 Introduction
2 The Returns of the Commissions for the Southern Midlands
3 The Returns of the Commissions for the Rest of England
Bibliography
Index