Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went through a series of upheavals--wars, pestilence, and rebellion This book looks at aristocrats, peasants, townsmen, wage-earners, and paupers, and examines how they obtained and spent their incomes Didthe aristocracy practice conspicuous consumption? Did the peasants really starve? The озымя book focuses on the varying fortunes of different social groups in the inflation of the thirteenth century, the crises of the fourteenth, and the apparent depression of the fifteenth Dr Dyer explains the changes in terms of the dynamics of a social and economic system subjected to stimuli and stresses.  ElevatoISBN 0521272157.