Immigrant England, 1300-1550 / W. Mark Ormrod, Bart Lambert and Jonathan Mackman.

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"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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Manchester medieval studies.
Main Authors: Ormrod, W. M., 1957- (Author)
Lambert, Bart (Author)
Mackman, Jonathan (Author)
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Series:Manchester medieval studies.
Subjects:
Immigrants > England > History > To 1500.
England > Emigration and immigration > History.
Great Britain > History > 1066-1687.
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants.
England.
To 1500
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xi, 300 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: immigrant England
  • Defining and regulating the immigrant
  • Numbers and distribution
  • Immigrants from the British Isles
  • Immigrants from overseas
  • Supplying the market
  • Wealth, status and gender
  • Old worlds, new immigrants
  • Cultural contact
  • Integration and confrontation
  • Conclusion: nationalism, racism and xenophobia.