Download or read book The Medieval Antecedents of English Agricultural Progress written by B. M. S. Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten essays assembled in this volume are important contributions to the present re-assessment of how the medieval 'backwardness' of English agriculture was transformed into modern 'progress'. They provide clear empirical evidence that, when and where economic, environmental, and institutional circumstances were ripe, medieval cultivators were as capable of securing high levels of land productivity as their early modern successors.