Andrew Wareham
Encyclopedia
Andrew Wareham is a British historian who has written several books on the Economy of England in the Middle Ages
with a special interest in the Hearth Tax. He is currently employed as a reader in the department of humanities
at Roehampton University
, London
.
Economy of England in the Middle Ages
The economy of England in the Middle Ages, from the Norman invasion in 1066, to the death of Henry VII in 1509, was fundamentally agricultural, though even before the invasion the market economy was important to producers...
with a special interest in the Hearth Tax. He is currently employed as a reader in the department of humanities
Humanities
The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
at Roehampton University
Roehampton University
The University of Roehampton is a campus university in the United Kingdom, situated on three major sites in Roehampton, south-west London.-History:...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
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Books
- (ed. with H.B. Teunis & A.J. Bijsterveld) Negotiating Secular and Ecclesiastical Power: Western Europe in the Central Middle Ages (Brepols, 1999)
- A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: X. Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (2002)
- Lords and Communities in Early Medieval East Anglia (Boydell & Brewer, 2005)
- (ed. with Julia Barrow) Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks (2008)
- (with Colin Phillips, Catherine Ferguson) Westmorland Hearth Tax, Michaelmas 1670 and Surveys 1674-5 (2009)
- (with David Hey, Colum Giles & Margaret Spufford) Yorkshire West Riding Hearth Tax Assessment, Lady Day 1672 (2007)
Articles
- 'St Oswald’s family and kin', in St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence, eds. N.P. Brooks and C.R.E. Cubitt (Leicester University Press, 1996), pp. 49–63
- 'The Feudal Revolution in Eleventh-Century East Anglia', Anglo-Norman Studies 22 (1999), pp. 293–322
- 'The Transformation of Kinship and the Family in late Anglo-Saxon England', Early Medieval Europe 10 (2001), pp. 375–99
- 'Water management and the economic environment in Eastern England, China and the Low Countries c.960-1660: comparisons and consequences', Jaarboek voor Ecologische Geschiedenis (2005/6), pp. 9–34
- (with X. Wei) 'Taxation and the Economy in Late Eleventh-Century England: reviving the Domesday regression debate', Anglo-Norman Studies 29 (2007), pp. 214–27