“With no theory to establish and no prejudice to maintain, she gathered all the information that could be procured relating to a single Norfolk manor, arranged it logically, and thus furnished a contribution to our knowledge of medieval economic conditions that is thoroughly trustworthy.” Thomas Walker Page.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 609. Ap. ’07. 720w. | |
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 153. Jl. ’07. 330w. |
“This is an extremely unpretentious, but none the less very remarkable piece of work. We commend specially to the attention of students the map of Forncett which accompanies this book.”
| + + | Ath. 1906, 2: 125. Ag. 4. 810w. |
“The care with which the author has done her work is worthy of all praise. Her calculations and tables are correct to a fraction. This accuracy of inquiry bears fruit in a series of results with which every student of economic history will have to reckon. The writer is not so safe a guide in regard to the social and legal side of the inquiry, and this is due partly to her insufficient use of the help to be obtained from comparison with kindred cases.” P. Vinogradoff.
| + + − | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 154. Ja. ’07. 1370w. | |
| + + | Ind. 63: 692. S. 19, ’07. 260w. |
“This essay publishes the results of painstaking and scholarly original research.”
| + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 59. Ja. ’07. 80w. |
“In the certainty and precision of statement that comes from an unusual knowledge of the minute detail of her subject lies the value of Miss Davenport’s study of Forncett.”