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Author Turner, Sam

Title Life in Medieval Landscapes : People and Places in the Middle Ages
Published Havertown : Oxbow Books, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (305 pages)
Contents Cover; Preface; Introduction; 1. Harold Fox as Historical Geographer: a Personal Appreciation; 2. Harold Fox: his Contribution to our Understandingof the Past; Landscape Regions; 3. Working with Wood-pasture; 4. ''Wealdbæ+œ+æra & Swina Mæ+œ+æst': Wood Pasture in EarlyMedieval England; 5. Brent's Waterways, Walls and Works, c. Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries; 6. Some Devon Farms before the Norman Conquest; 7. Shadows of Ghosts: Early Medieval Transhumantsin Cornwall; 8. Time Regained: Booley Huts and Seasonal Settlementin the Mourne Mountains, County Down, Ireland
9. Seasonal Settlement in Northern England: ShielingPlace-names Revisited10. The Significance of the Devon Country House: the Endof the Medieval and Medieval Revivalism; 11. Regional Differentiation in Farming Terminology, 1500-1720; Labour and Lordship; 12. The Smallholders of Southampton Water: the Peasant LandMarket on a Hampshire Manor before the Black Death; 13. Peasant Names on Glastonbury Abbey's Polden Hills Manorsbetween 1189 and 1352: Some Straws in a Wind of Change
14. Lord's Man or Community Servant? The Role, Statusand Allegiance of Village Haywards in Fifteenth-centuryNorthamptonshire15. Counting Houses: Using the Housing Structure of a LateMedieval Manor to Illuminate Population, Landholdingand Occupational Structure; 16. The Demesne and its Labour Force in the Early Middle Ages:a Warwickshire Case Study; 17. Thinking Through the Manorial Affix: People and Placein Medieval England; H.S.A. Fox: Published Works; Index
Summary "Life in Medieval Landscapes presents new studies on key themes in the economic and social history of the medieval landscape. The book draws together papers by medieval historians and archaeologists, with contributions by leading scholars in each field. The first part explores the nature of landscape regions in Britain and Ireland. Chapters explore the use and experience of different types of landscapes including marshlands, uplands, woodland and woodpasture. The papers analyse a wide variety of sources from detailed archival work on medieval records to place-names, archaeological survey and the study of veteran trees. A particular theme in several papers is the exploration of social, economic and spatial marginality. The second part presents new studies of labour and lordship. The contributions focus on medieval England, including aspects of the land market before the Black Death, the organisation of village communities, and how changing settlements related to demography and occupations. There is a particular focus on understanding the lives of peasants and labourers. The main themes of the book reflect the interests of Professor Harold Fox, whose death in 2007 was marked by a number of conferences in different parts of the UK. The papers in this volume have been offered by Harold's colleagues, friends and former research students as a tribute to his work. They showcase some of the best research in the fields of medieval landscape and social history. Contributors include Chris Dyer, Bruce Campbell, Andrew Fleming, Della Hooke, Jem Harrison, Ros Faith, Peter Herring, Mark Gardiner, Angus Winchester, Andrew Jackson, Alan Fox, Mark Page, Mike Thompson, Mike Thornton, Matt Tompkins, Penelope Upton and Richard Jones."--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Landscape archaeology -- Great Britain -- History
Human settlements -- Great Britain -- History
City and town life -- Great Britain -- History
Villages -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500.
Civilization, Medieval.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
City and town life
Civilization, Medieval
Historical geography
Human settlements
Landscape archaeology
Manners and customs
Social history -- Medieval
Villages
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Historical geography
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- History
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Silvester, Bob
ISBN 9781905119707
1905119704