Deserted Villages Revisited.
The starting point of this book was a meeting in 1948 in Leicestershire when historians and archaeologists visited newly identified sites of deserted villages. The excitement of these discoveries changed approaches to the medieval countryside. Sixty years later a new group of scholars went back to t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Hatfield :
University of Hertfordshire Press,
2010.
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Colección: | Explorations in Local and Regional History, 3.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The starting point of this book was a meeting in 1948 in Leicestershire when historians and archaeologists visited newly identified sites of deserted villages. The excitement of these discoveries changed approaches to the medieval countryside. Sixty years later a new group of scholars went back to the same sites and debated their significance in the light of many advances in knowledge. Thousands of villages and smaller settlements were deserted in England and Wales during all periods, though many of them were abandoned between 1340 and 1750. Why were they deserted? Why did some villages surviv. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (232 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781905313969 1905313969 |