John Langdon (historian)
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John L. Langdon (24 December 1944 – 31 December 2016)[1] was a British-born Canadian economic and social historian of medieval England.
Career
Langdon undertook his doctoral work at the University of Birmingham, UK[1] under the supervision of Christopher Dyer.[2] He worked at the University of Alberta, Canada (1984–2010), being appointed assistant professor of British medieval history in 1984.[3][4] Beloved by his students, he ranked 4.6 out of 5 on RateMyProfessors.com.[5]
He is best known for his contributions on medieval English technology, chiefly two monographs: Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation: The Use of Draught Animals in English Farming from 1066–1500 (Cambridge University Press, 1986)[6][7][8] and Mills in the Medieval Economy: England 1300–1540 (Oxford University Press, 2004).[9][10][11]
He also co-edited a number of essay collections. With Grenville G. Astill, he edited Medieval Farming and Technology: The Impact of Agricultural Change in Northwest Europe (Brill, 1997). With Richard Goddard and Miriam Müller he edited a festschrift for Professor Christopher Dyer: Survival and Discord in Medieval Society, Essays in Honour of Christopher Dyer.[12] Together with Maryanne Kowaleski and Phillipp R. Schofield he edited a festschrift for Professor Bruce Campbell: Peasants and Lords in the Medieval English Economy: Essays in Honour of Bruce M.S. Campbell.[13][14]
His research continued into his retirement, his last research project, "A war over water: The 1531 English Statue of Sewers and its impact upon local politics, economies and environments" commencing in 2013.[15]
Selected works
Author
Books
Articles
- Langdon, John. "The Economics of Horses and Oxen in Medieval England." The Agricultural History Review 30, no. 1 (1982): 31-40
- Langdon, John. "Horse Hauling: A Revolution in Vehicle Transport in Twelfth and Thirteenth-century England?" Past and Present 103, no. 1 (1984): 37–66.
- Langdon, John. "A Quiet Revolution - The Horse in Agriculture, 1100-1500." History Today 39, no. 7 (1989): 32.
- Langdon, John. "Water-mills and Windmills in the West Midlands, 1086-1500." Economic History Review 44, no. 3 (1991): 424–45.
- Langdon, John. "The Birth and Demise of a Medieval Windmill." History of Technology 14 (1992): 54–77.
- Langdon, John. "Inland Water Transport in Medieval England." Journal of Historical Geography 19, no. 1 (1993): 1-11.
- Langdon, John. "The Mobilization of Labour in the Milling Industry of Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-century England." Canadian Journal of History/Annales Canadiennes D'Histoire 31, no. 1 (1996): 37–58.
- Langdon, John. "Inland Water Transport in Medieval England — the View from the Mills: A Response to Jones." Journal of Historical Geography 26, no. 1 (2000): 75–82.
- Langdon, John., and Martin. Watts. "Tower Windmills in Medieval England: A Case of Arrested Development?" Technology and Culture 46, no. 4 (2005): 697–718.
- Langdon, John, and James Masschaele. "Commercial Activity and Population Growth in Medieval England" Past & Present 190, no. 1 (2006): 35–81.
- Tara Gale, John Langdon and Natalie Leishman "Piety and Political Accommodation in Norman England", Haskins Society Journal, vol. 18 (2007), pp. 110–31.
- Bailey, B. Gregory, Meaghan E Bernard, Gregory Carrier, Cherise L Elliott, John Langdon, Natalie Leishman, Michal Mlynarz, Oksana Mykhed, and Lindsay C Sidders. "Coming of Age and the Family in Medieval England." Journal of Family History 33, no. 1 (2008): 41–60.
- Claridge, Jordan, and John Langdon. "Storage in Medieval England: The Evidence from Purveyance Accounts, 1295–13491." Economic History Review 64, no. 4 (2011): 1242–265.
- Langdon, John, and Jordan Claridge. "Transport in Medieval England." History Compass 9, no. 11 (2011): 864–75.
- Claridge, Jordan, and John Langdon. "The composition of famuli labour on English demesnes, c. 1300." Agricultural History Review 63, no. 2 (2015): 187–220.
- Langdon, John and James White. "An Early Seventeenth-century River Environment: the 1618 Survey of the Itchen" Hampshire Studies Volume 72, Number 1, December 2017, pp. 142–165.
Editor
- Medieval Farming and Technology: The Impact of Agricultural Change in Northwest Europe (With Grenville Astill)
- Survival and Discord in Medieval Society, Essays in Honour of Christopher Dyer
- Peasants and Lords in the Medieval English Economy: Essays in Honour of Bruce M.S. Campbell