中世纪英国工资研究的问题意识

The Problem Consciousness in the Study of Wages in Medieval England

19世纪下半叶以来至21世纪,工资问题一直是英国中世纪史研究的重要内容。不过,学者们没有就工资论工资,而是围绕工资先后提出几个重大课题。大体来说,中世纪英国工资问题研究主要出现过工资购买力、工资劳动和工资劳动者三种问题意识,每种问题意识的产生都极大地推动了中世纪英国工资问题研究的进展,显著提升了对该问题的认识深度和广度。通过上述研究,长期以来在中世纪史中占据主导地位的传统观点被一一修正,这些来自实证研究的新知识和新认识将会逐渐成为当今中世纪史的基本常识。

From the second half of the 19th century to the 21st century, the issue of wages has always been an important content of the study of English medieval history. However, instead of demonstrating wages on wages, scholars successively put forward several important topics around wages. Generally speaking, there are three kinds of problem consciousness of wage purchasing power, wage labor and wage-earner in Medieval England. The Emergence of each problem consciousness greatly promoted the progress of the research on the wage problem in Medieval England, and significantly improved the depth and breadth of understanding of the problem. Through the above research, the traditional viewpoints which had been dominant in the medieval history for a long time have been revised one by one. These new knowledge and new understandings from empirical research will gradually become the basic common sense in the history of Middle Ages.