Life in Medieval Landscapes (Paperback)
People and Places in the Middle Ages
Imprint: Windgather Press
Pages: 240
Illustrations: 50 b/w & 27 col illus, 14 tables
ISBN: 9781905119400
Published: 3rd December 2011
Casemate UK Academic
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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.
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About Bob Silvester
Bob Silvester is the current president of the Medieval Settlement Research Group. He was Deputy Director of the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust until his retirement in 2016. Responsible for the study of medieval rural settlement in east Wales in a Wales-wide programme initiated by Cadw that spanned several years around 2000, he published the results in a multi-authored volume entitled Lost Farmsteads (2006) and analysed the histories of the smaller village settlements of north-east and east Wales, again for Cadw. Other research interests include historic landscapes and church archaeology.
About Sam Turner
Sam Turner is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Newcastle University. He is currently Editor for the Medieval Settlement Research Group. His research interests include the long-term history of landscapes since the Roman period and medieval archaeology, in particular early medieval religion. His current and recent projects include work at and around Bede’s monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow, research on early medieval churches and landscapes in Ireland, and studies of medieval and later landscapes in Greece and Turkey.