Background
Christopher Dyer was born on December 24, 1944, in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England, United Kingdom. He is the son of Charles James and Doris Mary Dyer. His father was a builder’s foreman and his mother a primary school teacher.
Birmingham, United Kingdom
In 1965 Christopher Dyer received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Birmingham. In 1977 he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from this university.
Chapel Ln, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6BE, United Kingdom
From 1955 to 1962 Christopher Dyer was educated at King Edward VI School in Stratford-upon-Avon.
https://www.amazon.com/Rural-Settlements-Medieval-England-Dedicated/dp/0631159037/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Rural+Settlements+of+Medieval+England%3A+Studies+Dedicated+to+Maurice+Beresford+and+John+Hurst&qid=1612426927&s=books&sr=1-1
1989
(Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went throu...)
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. Did the aristocracy practice conspicuous consumption? Did the peasants really starve? The 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.
https://www.amazon.com/Standards-Living-Later-Middle-Ages/dp/0521272157/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?dchild=1&keywords=Standards+of+Living+in+the+Later+Middle+Ages%3A+Social+Change+in+England%2C+c.+1200-1520&qid=1612427077&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmr0
1989
(New research into the development of rural settlements. T...)
New research into the development of rural settlements. These studies focus on the period 850-1200 when the basic patterns were established. Incorporates a great deal of new research, mostly based on detailed regional surveys in the east Midland. Essential reading for landscape archaeologists and medieval historians.
https://www.amazon.com/Village-Hamlet-Field-Carenza-Lewis/dp/0953863034/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Village%2CHamlet%2C+and+Field%3A+Changing+Medieval+Settlements+in+Central+England&qid=1612428452&s=books&sr=1-1
1997
https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Pupils-Severe-Complex-Difficulties/dp/1849850828/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Teaching+Pupils+with+Severe+and+Complex+Difficulties%3A+Back+to+First+Principle&qid=1612428964&s=books&sr=1-1
2001
(Dramatic social and economic change during the middle age...)
Dramatic social and economic change during the middle ages altered the lives of the people of Britain in far-reaching ways, from the structure of their families to the ways they made their livings. In this masterly book, preeminent medieval historian Christopher Dyer presents a fresh view of the British economy from the ninth to the sixteenth century and a vivid new account of medieval life. He begins his volume with the formation of towns and villages in the ninth and tenth centuries and ends with the inflation, population rise, and colonial expansion of the sixteenth century. This is a book about ideas and attitudes as well as the material world, and Dyer shows how people regarded the economy and responded to economic change. He examines the growth of towns, the clearing of lands, the Great Famine, the Black Death, and the upheavals of the fifteenth century through the eyes of those who experienced them. He also explores the dilemmas and decisions of those who were making a living in a changing world - from peasants, artisans, and wage earners to barons and monks. Drawing on archaeological and landscape evidence along with more conventional archives and records, the author offers here an engaging survey of British medieval economic history unrivaled in breadth and clarity.
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Living-Middle-Ages-Economic-ebook/dp/B00W1LKXVC/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Making+a+Living+in+the+Middle+Ages%3A+The+People+of+Britain%2C+850-1520&qid=1612429291&s=books&sr=1-1
2002
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Christopher Dyer examines the transition in the economy and society of England between 1250 and 1550. Using new sources of evidence, he demonstrates that important structural changes after 1350 built on the commercial growth of the thirteenth century. He shows that the development of individual property, response to new consumption patterns, and use of credit and investment, came from the peasantry rather than the aristocracy. An Age of Transition?, a significant new work by a top medievalist, reveals how England was set on course to become the 'first industrial nation.'
https://www.amazon.com/Age-Transition-Economy-Society-Lectures-ebook/dp/B001E12BLU/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=An+Age+of+Transition%3F+Economy+and+Society+in+England+in+the+Later+Middle+Ages&qid=1612429457&s=books&sr=1-1
2005
(Around 1500 England's society and economy had reached a t...)
Around 1500 England's society and economy had reached a turning point. After a long period of slow change and even stagnation, an age of innovation and initiative was in motion, with enclosure, voyages of discovery, and new technologies. It was an age of fierce controversy, in which the government was fearful of beggars and wary of rebellions. The 'commonwealth' writers such as Thomas More were sharply critical of the greed of profit-hungry landlords who dispossessed the poor. This book is about a wool merchant and large scale farmer who epitomizes in many ways the spirit of the period. John Heritage kept an account book, from which we can reconstruct a whole society in the vicinity of Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. He took part in the removal of a village which stood in the way of agricultural 'improvement', ran a large scale sheep farm, and as a 'woolman' spent much time traveling around the countryside meeting with the gentry, farmers, and peasants in order to buy their wool. He sold the fleeces he produced and those he gathered to London merchants who exported through Calais to the textile towns of Flanders. The wool growers named in the book can be studied in their native villages, and their lives can be reconstructed in the round, interacting in their communities, adapting their farming to new circumstances, and arranging the building of their local churches.
https://www.amazon.com/Country-Merchant-1495-1520-Trading-Farming/dp/0199214247
2012
Christopher Dyer was born on December 24, 1944, in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England, United Kingdom. He is the son of Charles James and Doris Mary Dyer. His father was a builder’s foreman and his mother a primary school teacher.
From 1955 to 1962 Christopher Dyer was educated at King Edward VI School in Stratford-upon-Avon. In 1965 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Birmingham. In 1977 he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from this university.
Christopher Dyer began his carer as an assistant lecturer in history at the University of Edinburgh. From 1970 to 1990 he served as a senior lecturer and reader at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, and a professor of medieval social history from 1990 to 2001. From 2000 to 2001 Dyer worked as the Ford Lecturer in Medieval History at Oxford University. In 2001 he was appointed as a professor of regional and local history and a director of the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester.
His research interests have included economic and social history, particularly of the medieval period, including the history of towns, commerce, and agriculture. An expert on medieval studies and a frequent reviewer of books in journals. Dyer has also written papers, textbooks, and historical studies, including his Everyday Life in Medieval England, consisting of fifteen essays divided into four sections that focus on settlement, standards of living, social relations, and the market. His time frame is the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, with one section touching on the towns and cottages of the eleventh century. Three chapters deal with diet, and another with housing and others study how consumer demands were met by commerce. Dyer contends that peasants had better housing than has been thought, that many of the manual laborers ate well, and that the majority of all people were part of the market society.
His other publications include Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England, c. 1200-1520 (1989), Village. Hamlet, and Field: Changing Medieval Settlements in Central England (1997), Bromsgrove: A Small Town in Worcestershire in the Middle Ages (2000), Teaching Pupils with Severe and Complex Difficulties: Back to First Principles (2001), An Age of Transition? (2005), A Country Merchant, 1495-1520: Trading and Farming at the End of the Middle Ages (2012).
(Dramatic social and economic change during the middle age...)
2002(Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went throu...)
1989(Christopher Dyer examines the transition in the economy a...)
2005(Around 1500 England's society and economy had reached a t...)
2012(New research into the development of rural settlements. T...)
1997Christopher Dyer is a fellow of the British Academy. He is a member of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society.
On September 16, 1967, Christopher Dyer married Jenifer Ann Dent. They have two children: Thomas Daniel, Josephine Kate.