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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kilby, Susan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hatfield, Hertfordshire : University Of Hertfordshire Press, 2020.
Colección:Studies in regional and local history (Hertfordshire, England) ; v. 17.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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