Peasant perspectives on the Medieval landscape : a study of three communities /
This compelling new study forms part of a new wave of scholarship on the medieval rural environment in which the focus moves beyond purely socio-economic concerns to incorporate the lived experience of peasants. For too long, the principal intellectual approach has been to consider both subject and...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
---|---|
Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Hatfield, Hertfordshire :
University Of Hertfordshire Press,
2020.
|
Colección: | Studies in regional and local history (Hertfordshire, England) ;
v. 17. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This compelling new study forms part of a new wave of scholarship on the medieval rural environment in which the focus moves beyond purely socio-economic concerns to incorporate the lived experience of peasants. For too long, the principal intellectual approach has been to consider both subject and evidence from a modern, rationalist perspective and to afford greater importance to the social elite. New perspectives are needed. By re-evaluating the source material from the perspective of the peasant worldview, it is possible to build a far more detailed representation of rural peasant experience. Susan Kilby seeks to reconstruct the physical and socio-cultural environment of three contrasting English villages - Lakenheath in Suffolk, Castor in Northamptonshire and Elton in Huntingdonshire - between c. 1086 and c. 1348 and to use this as the basis for determining how peasants perceived their natural surroundings. |
---|---|
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781912260300 1912260301 |