IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 614: The Changing Fortunes of Seigneurial and Commercial Milling in Medieval England
Tuesday 5 July 2016, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Adam Lucas, School of Humanities & Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong, New South Wales |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Steven A. Walton, Department of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University |
| Paper 614-a | The Structure of the Seigneurial Milling Industry in England, 1427-1437 (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Technology |
| Paper 614-b | The Emergence of a Commercial Sector in the English Milling Trade, 1086-1540 (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Economics - General, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Technology |
| Paper 614-c | The Windmill in England: A Feudal Enterprise rather than a Commercial Proposition? (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Technology |
| Abstract | This session examines three related issues in the diversification of the English milling trade in the latter half of the Middle Ages: -a the extent to which pre-Conquest forms of ownership and land tenure contributed to the growth of non-seigneurial (or commercial) milling activities after the Conquest; -b whether the English postmill was primarily regarded by lords as an economically viable technology or a potential new source of surplus extraction; and -c the extent to which the Inquisitiones post Mortem can be relied upon as a source of information about the changing fortunes of seigneurial milling in the 15th century. |