John Langdon (historian)

John L. Langdon (December 24, 1944 – December 31, 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

Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation: The Use of Draught Animals in English Farming from 1066–1500

Mills in the Medieval Economy: England 1300–1540

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.

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

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

References
  1. John Langdon Edmonton Journal (January 30, 2017)
  2. Langdon, John (1986). Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation: The Use of Draught Animals in English Farming from 1066-1500. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. xiii. ISBN 0-521-26772-2.
  3. University Staff (PDF), University of Alberta, retrieved 8 April 2018
  4. University Staff, University of Alberta, retrieved 8 April 2018
  5. "John Langdon at University of Alberta - RateMyProfessors.com". www.ratemyprofessors.com. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  6. Elaine Clark (1987), "Reviewed Work: Horses, Oxen, and Technological Innovation: The Use of Draught Animals in English Farming from 1066-1500 by John Langdon", Agricultural History, 61 (4): 80–81, JSTOR 3743899
  7. Richard W. Unger (1988), "Reviewed Work: Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation: The Use of Draught Animals in English Farming from 1066-1500 by John Langdon", The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 19 (2): 307–08, doi:10.2307/204676, JSTOR 204676
  8. Robert S. Gottfried (1988), "Reviewed Work: Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation: The Use of Draught Animals in English Farming from 1066-1500 by John Langdon", Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, 20 (1): 80–81, doi:10.2307/4049802, JSTOR 4049802
  9. Ben Dodds (2005), "Reviewed Work: Mills in the Medieval Economy: England 1300–1540 by John Langdon", The Economic History Review, 58 (2): 408–09, doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.2005.00309_3.x, JSTOR 3698699
  10. Richard W. Unger (2005), "Reviewed Work: Mills in the Medieval Economy: England 1300–1540 by John Langdon", Technology and Culture, 46 (3): 636–38, doi:10.1353/tech.2005.0155, JSTOR 40060918
  11. James Davis (2006), "Reviewed Work: Mills in the Medieval Economy: England 1300–1540 by John Langdon", The English Historical Review, 121 (490): 193–95, doi:10.1093/ehr/cej010, JSTOR 3806248
  12. Survival and Discord in Medieval Society: Essays in Honour of Christopher Dyer. Turnhout: Brepols. 2010. ISBN 978-2-503-52815-1.
  13. Peasants and Lords in the Medieval English Economy: Essays in Honour of Bruce M.S Campbell. Turnhout: Brepols. 2015. ISBN 978-2-503-55156-2.
  14. Forrest, Ian (2017-08-24). "Peasants and Lords in the Medieval English Economy: Essays in Honour of Bruce M.S. Campbell, ed. Maryanne Kowaleski, John Langdon and Phillipp R. Schofield". The English Historical Review. 132 (558): 1299–1301. doi:10.1093/ehr/cex220. ISSN 0013-8266.
  15. GAPSSHRC; Langdon, John (2012-10-09). "A war over water: The 1531 English Statue of Sewers and its impact upon local politics, economies and environments". ERA. doi:10.7939/R3FB4WX4N. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
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