Immigrant England, 1300–1550

Immigrant England, 1300–1550
ISBN-10
1526109166
ISBN-13
9781526109163
Category
History
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2018-12-14
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Authors
W. Mark Ormrod, Bart Lambert, Jonathan Mackman

Description

This book provides a vivid and accessible history of first-generation immigrants to England in the later Middle Ages. Accounting for upwards of two percent of the population and coming from all parts of Europe and beyond, immigrants spread out over the kingdom, settling in the countryside as well as in towns, taking work as agricultural labourers, skilled craftspeople and professionals. Often encouraged and welcomed, sometimes vilified and victimised, immigrants were always on the social and political agenda. Immigrant England is the first book to address a phenomenon and issue of vital concern to English people at the time, to their descendants living in the United Kingdom today and to all those interested in the historical dimensions of immigration policy, attitudes to ethnicity and race and concepts of Englishness and Britishness.

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