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Spencer Dimmock

I am a historian specialising in the history of medieval and early modern England and Wales, although for comparative purposes I draw heavily on research on other countries. I am mostly interested in transitions to capitalism past and present.

My recent book, The Origin of Capitalism in England, 1400-1600 (Leiden, 2014), aims to defend Robert Brenner's thesis on the transition from feudalism to capitalism from the numerous critiques of historians and historical sociologists. Its approach is both theoretical and historical, and it presents a broad range of studies that provide a strong empirical foundation for Brenner's thesis, including an historical case study of my own which began as my doctoral thesis and is now entirely reworked with new material.

I am currently nearing completion of two volumes on the role of forced expropriation in the transition from feudalism to capitalism in England c. 1400-1650. The second volume is a collection of sources that I have translated on the royal commissions into depopulating enclosures in 1517-18 and other related evidence. The title is England's Second Domesday and the Expulsion of the English Peasantry. The publisher is Brill, Leiden.

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Research paper thumbnail of Preface to England's Second Domesday and the Expulsion of the English Peasantry by Spencer Dimmock

Brill, Leiden, 2024

I have posted this preface as an advertisement for my forthcoming book (Brill, Leiden, released 2... more I have posted this preface as an advertisement for my forthcoming book (Brill, Leiden, released 23 May 2024).

Research paper thumbnail of The Origin of Capitalism in England, 1400-1600 (Brill: Leiden, 2014)

Final proofs of the whole book

Papers by Spencer Dimmock

Research paper thumbnail of Expropriation and the Political Origins of Agrarian Capitalism in England

This is the final draft of a contribution to the book, Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism,... more This is the final draft of a contribution to the book, Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism, edited by Charles Post and Xavier Lafrance, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of The Eastern Origins of Capitalism?

An unpublished review essay of Anievas and Nisancioglu, How the West came to Rule: The Geopolitic... more An unpublished review essay of Anievas and Nisancioglu, How the West came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism. An updated version (2017) which extends parts of the discussion can be found at www.historicalmaterialism.org Blog.

Research paper thumbnail of Expropriation and the Origin of Capitalism

unpublished paper given to the political Marxist group at Sussex University, May 2014

Research paper thumbnail of English small towns and the emergence of capitalist relations, c. 1450–1550

Research paper thumbnail of English Towns and the Transition c.1450-1550, in Rodney Hilton's Middle Ages, 400-1600, edited by P. Coss, C. Dyer and C. Wickham

Research paper thumbnail of Social Conflict in Welsh Towns, c. 1280-1530, in Urban Culture in Medieval Wales (University of Wales Press), edited by Helen Fulton

Research paper thumbnail of The origins of Welsh apprentices in sixteenth-century Bristol

Welsh History Review, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Reassessing the towns of southern Wales in the later middle ages

Research paper thumbnail of Haverfordwest: An Exemplar for the Study of Welsh Towns in the Later Middle Ages

Welsh History Review, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of The custom book of Chepstow, 1535-6

Research paper thumbnail of Urban and commercial networks in the later middle ages: Chepstow, Severnside, and the ports of southern Wales

Archaeologia Cambrensis, 2003

Book Reviews by Spencer Dimmock

Research paper thumbnail of Agriculture and Rural Society after the Black Death: Common Themes and Regional Variations, edited by B. Dodds and R. Britnell

Research paper thumbnail of Inside the Illicit Economy: Reconstructing the Smuggler's Trade of Sixteenth-Century Bristol, by E. T. Jones

Research paper thumbnail of The Development of Agrarian Capitalism: Land and Labour in Norfolk: 1440–1580, by Jane Whittle

Historical Materialism-research in Critical Marxist Theory, 2007

Drafts by Spencer Dimmock

Research paper thumbnail of The British Marxist Historians by Spencer Dimmock (May 2005

Unpublished, 2005

This unpublished paper (written in 2005) focuses on the lesser-known British Marxist historians, ... more This unpublished paper (written in 2005) focuses on the lesser-known British Marxist historians, and as such provides insights into the broader range of historical and literary subjects within this perspective.

Research paper thumbnail of The Royal Directive for the Inquisition of 1517 into Forced Depopulation and Enclosure in England: A Translation

This is a new translation from the Latin of the directive in 1517 by the English Crown to royal c... more This is a new translation from the Latin of the directive in 1517 by the English Crown to royal commissioners to discover incidences of illegal, forced depopulation and enclosure of arable lands into pasture. It attempted to cover the whole of England apart from the northernmost counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland and Durham. I have now translated some of the surviving returns generated from this Inquisition, that is, those previously published in Latin by I. S. Leadam in his 'Domesday of Inclosures' in 1896. They and their significance for the history of capitalism will be published in two forthcoming volumes.

Research paper thumbnail of Preface to England's Second Domesday and the Expulsion of the English Peasantry by Spencer Dimmock

Brill, Leiden, 2024

I have posted this preface as an advertisement for my forthcoming book (Brill, Leiden, released 2... more I have posted this preface as an advertisement for my forthcoming book (Brill, Leiden, released 23 May 2024).

Research paper thumbnail of The Origin of Capitalism in England, 1400-1600 (Brill: Leiden, 2014)

Final proofs of the whole book

Research paper thumbnail of Expropriation and the Political Origins of Agrarian Capitalism in England

This is the final draft of a contribution to the book, Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism,... more This is the final draft of a contribution to the book, Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism, edited by Charles Post and Xavier Lafrance, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of The Eastern Origins of Capitalism?

An unpublished review essay of Anievas and Nisancioglu, How the West came to Rule: The Geopolitic... more An unpublished review essay of Anievas and Nisancioglu, How the West came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism. An updated version (2017) which extends parts of the discussion can be found at www.historicalmaterialism.org Blog.

Research paper thumbnail of Expropriation and the Origin of Capitalism

unpublished paper given to the political Marxist group at Sussex University, May 2014

Research paper thumbnail of English small towns and the emergence of capitalist relations, c. 1450–1550

Research paper thumbnail of English Towns and the Transition c.1450-1550, in Rodney Hilton's Middle Ages, 400-1600, edited by P. Coss, C. Dyer and C. Wickham

Research paper thumbnail of Social Conflict in Welsh Towns, c. 1280-1530, in Urban Culture in Medieval Wales (University of Wales Press), edited by Helen Fulton

Research paper thumbnail of The origins of Welsh apprentices in sixteenth-century Bristol

Welsh History Review, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Reassessing the towns of southern Wales in the later middle ages

Research paper thumbnail of Haverfordwest: An Exemplar for the Study of Welsh Towns in the Later Middle Ages

Welsh History Review, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of The custom book of Chepstow, 1535-6

Research paper thumbnail of Urban and commercial networks in the later middle ages: Chepstow, Severnside, and the ports of southern Wales

Archaeologia Cambrensis, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of Agriculture and Rural Society after the Black Death: Common Themes and Regional Variations, edited by B. Dodds and R. Britnell

Research paper thumbnail of Inside the Illicit Economy: Reconstructing the Smuggler's Trade of Sixteenth-Century Bristol, by E. T. Jones

Research paper thumbnail of The Development of Agrarian Capitalism: Land and Labour in Norfolk: 1440–1580, by Jane Whittle

Historical Materialism-research in Critical Marxist Theory, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of The British Marxist Historians by Spencer Dimmock (May 2005

Unpublished, 2005

This unpublished paper (written in 2005) focuses on the lesser-known British Marxist historians, ... more This unpublished paper (written in 2005) focuses on the lesser-known British Marxist historians, and as such provides insights into the broader range of historical and literary subjects within this perspective.

Research paper thumbnail of The Royal Directive for the Inquisition of 1517 into Forced Depopulation and Enclosure in England: A Translation

This is a new translation from the Latin of the directive in 1517 by the English Crown to royal c... more This is a new translation from the Latin of the directive in 1517 by the English Crown to royal commissioners to discover incidences of illegal, forced depopulation and enclosure of arable lands into pasture. It attempted to cover the whole of England apart from the northernmost counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland and Durham. I have now translated some of the surviving returns generated from this Inquisition, that is, those previously published in Latin by I. S. Leadam in his 'Domesday of Inclosures' in 1896. They and their significance for the history of capitalism will be published in two forthcoming volumes.

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