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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hatfield, Hertfordshire :
University Of Hertfordshire Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Studies in regional and local history (Hertfordshire, England) ;
v. 17. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Copyrigt
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- General Editor's preface
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- Geographic scope
- Elton, Huntingdonshire
- Castor, Northamptonshire
- Lakenheath, Suffolk
- Sources
- 2. Understanding the seigneurial landscape
- From inclusive to exclusive? Seigneurial perceptions of rural settlement in the later Anglo-Saxon period
- Conspicuous display and veiled privacy: from the Norman Conquest to the Black Death
- 3. Ordering the landscape
- Organising the landscape of the medieval vill: seigneurial and peasant zones
- Encountering the built environment: rural peasant dwellings
- Delineating peasant space within the medieval manor
- Off the beaten track: the hidden morphology of the rural landscape
- 4. The unseen landscape
- Understanding topographical bynames
- Knowing your place: contrasting peasant landscapes within medieval manors?
- Mapping topographical bynames: Norman Cross hundred
- Aboveton: from indicator of place to socially constructed landscape
- Mapping topographical bynames: Huntingdonshire
- the bigger picture
- Conclusions: personal status and topographical bynames
- 5. Naming the landscape
- Reassessing minor medieval landscape names
- Ordering field and furlong
- Distinguishing field and furlong
- The natural environment
- The supernatural environment
- Looking backward: naming the landscape
- The dynamics of landscape naming: cultural names
- 6. The remembered landscape
- Beyond taxonomy: the secret life of the fields
- 7. The economic landscape
- The rural environment as an economic resource: the demesne
- The rural environment as an economic resource: peasant arable production
- Hidden peasant economies: fishing
- Hidden peasant economies: sheep farming
- Conclusions
- hidden peasant economies
- 8. Managing the landscape
- Waste not, want not: the natural world as a resource
- As common as muck: keeping the land in good heart
- Scientific fields: peasants and medieval science
- Ten men went to mow: managing medieval meadowland
- Mires, mores and meres: managing fenland resources
- A ditch in time: managing drainage and water resources
- Conclusions
- managing the landscape
- 9. Conclusion
- Unveiling the peasant environment
- Living in rural communities
- Social status reconsidered
- Detecting peasant agency
- Memory and history in the rural landscape
- Making a living in rural England
- Peasant perspectives on the medieval landscape: concluding thoughts
- Bibliography
- Index