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Bread and ale for the brethren : the provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory, 1260-1536 / Philip Slavin.

Title
Bread and ale for the brethren : the provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory, 1260-1536 / Philip Slavin.
Author
Slavin, Philip.
Publication
Hertfordshire, UK : University of Hertfordshire Press, 2012.

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Description
xvii, 220 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm.
Series Statement
Studies in regional and local history ; v. 11
Uniform Title
Studies in regional and local history (Hertfordshire, England) ; v. 11.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1 'A puzzling economy': demesne cultivation and seigniorial autarky in the age of commercialisation 1 -- Commercialisation and marketisation of the late medieval economy 1 -- Seigniorial autarky in the age of commercialisation 4 -- 2 Norwich Cathedral Priory: population, food requirements and provisioning channels 8 -- The priory population, 1096-1538 8 -- The grain requirements of Norwich Cathedral Priory 15 -- Getting grain: sources and resources 21 -- The grain supply of Norwich Cathedral Priory in a wider context 23 -- Why two channels? Economic instability, risk aversion and diversified portfolios 24 -- 3 Norwich Cathedral Priory's grain market, 1260-1538 26 -- Geographic extent of the priory grain market 26 -- The grain trade: reputation and trust 29 -- Quantities of purchased grain 33 -- Frequency and seasonality of transactions 36 -- Norwich grain prices, 1264-1536: between endogenous factors and exogenous shocks 39 -- Market integration? 44 -- 4 Grain production on Norwich Cathedral Priory demesnes 48 -- The era of direct management 48 -- Regional and chronological trends in crop geography 57 -- Crop geography determinants: environment, markets and consumption 63 -- Annual crop disposal: chronological and regional patterns 69 -- Crop disposal in a wider context 75 -- Production costs 77 -- Food farms 81 -- Conclusions 83 -- 5 Shipping the produce: transportation requirements, strategies and costs 84 -- Grain transportation: sources and resources 84 -- Demesne horses 85 -- The 'Great Boat' (magna navis) 87 -- Transporting services: customary dues 87 -- Transporting services: harvest famuli 88 -- Transporting services: stipendiary famuli 102 -- Transporting services: priory carters and boatmen 103 -- Carting requirements and logistics 105 -- Transportation costs and savings 109 -- Transportation logistics: the case of Eaton carters 113 -- Road versus river transportation: advantages and drawbacks 115 -- Conclusions 116 -- 6 Space for grain: barns and granaries 119 -- The medieval barn and modern scholarship 119 -- Demesne barns: nature, layout and capacity 120 -- Demesne barns: storage costs 122 -- The Great Granary: layout and costs 126 -- The almoner's granary 130 -- Barns and granaries: a tool for insurance, speculation or practical storage? 130 -- Grain storage mechanisms and depletion rates 136 -- Conclusions 139 -- 7 Grain into bread and ale: processing and consumption 140 -- Cathedral mills 140 -- Cathedral bakery and brewery 142 -- Annual baking patterns 145 -- Panis monachorum 147 -- Panis ponderis minoris 150 -- Panis militum 153 -- Bread consumption patterns 156 -- Two kinds of ale 159 -- Annual brewing patterns 163 -- Turning malt into ale: gallons and calories 163 -- Grain consumption in a comparative perspective 167 -- Bread and ale consumption in a wider perspective 169 -- 8 Economics of charity: grain alms as poor relief 173 -- Hermits and anchorites 173 -- Prisoners in the castle prison 175 -- Almoner's soup kitchen for Norwich paupers 179 -- Grain alms in a wider context, theological and social 183 -- Conclusions 186.
ISBN
  • 9781907396625 (hardback)
  • 1907396624 (hardback)
  • 9781907396632 (pbk.)
  • 1907396632 (pbk.)
OCLC
801069659
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library