[Sca-cooks] BMR: Dyer, Making a Living (Murray) (fwd)

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In a message dated 1/7/2003 9:29:06 AM Eastern Standard Time,
sjk3 at cornell.edu writes:


> "Making a Living In the Middle Ages" succeeds admirably as a
> general work for those who desire an up-to-date,
> well-organized summary of a generation of research on the
> medieval British economy.  It is not a work for specialists,
> however, who will search in vain for footnotes and will find
> little solace in a rather weak "Further Reading"  section at
> the back of the book. Within those boundaries, the book is
> both a valuable and persuasive work of scholarship.
>

Just be aware that it is "economic history", the history of how the economy
functioned overall at various times.  I was somewhat disappointed, as I had
thought it was about the history of the various ways of making a
living...There is very little information specific to any one trade.

Brangwayna Morgan