The Fear of Downward Social Mobility in Late Medieval England
(2019)
Journal Article
Brown, A. (2019). The Fear of Downward Social Mobility in Late Medieval England. Journal of Medieval History, 45(5), 597-617. https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2019.1660206
Studies of medieval social mobility have tended to focus upon the success of socially ambitious, generally male, careerists. Alongside this tendency to use social mobility as a synonym for upward mobility has been a tradition of assigning the most ag... Read More about The Fear of Downward Social Mobility in Late Medieval England.