Fox died at 62 in 2007, immediately after retiring from 30 years teaching English local history at the University of Leicester. He is remembered with personal and professional reflections and 15 essays in his discipline. The topics include wood pasture in early medieval England, some Devon farms before the Norman Conquest, regional differentiation in farming terminology 1500-1720, peasant names on Glastonbury Abbey's Polden Hills manors between 1189 and 1352, and a Warwickshire case study of the demesne and its labor force in the early Middle Ages. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)