Dr. David Routt

Assistant Professor of History

318 Ryland Hall
Office: (804) 289-8885
Fax: (804) 287-1992

I am at present working on an economic and social history of the estate held by the abbot of St. Edmund's abbey, a major English Benedictine house, during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The history examines the abbot's response as manager of a large landed endowment to the Great Famine, the Black Death, the English Peasants' Rebellion, and other instances of economic, social, political, and ecclesiastical crisis characteristic of the late Middle Ages. It also explores related themes such as patterns of aristocratic and peasant consumption, mobility of labor, peasant resistance to seigniorial authority, and the erosion of the medieval manorial institutions.

Teaching:
Did Rome Fall?
Ideas and Institutions of Western Civilization
Medieval England
Early Middle Ages
Medieval Economy: Pre-Industrial Europe, 500-1500

Research:
Medieval Europe, Medieval England, Medieval Economy, Monasticism

Education:
The Ohio State University, Ph.D.
University of Kentucky, M.A.
University of Kentucky, B.A.