Field Systems and Farming Systems in Late Medieval England

Field Systems and Farming Systems in Late Medieval England
Author :
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 332
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781000944433
ISBN-13 : 1000944433
Rating : 4/5 (433 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Field Systems and Farming Systems in Late Medieval England by : Bruce M.S. Campbell

Download or read book Field Systems and Farming Systems in Late Medieval England written by Bruce M.S. Campbell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The later Middle Ages was an overwhelmingly rural world, with probably three out of four households reliant upon farming for a living. Yet conventional accounts of the period rarely do justice to the variety of ways in which the land was managed and worked. The thirteen essays collected in this volume draw upon the abundant documentary evidence of the period to explore that diversity. In the process they engage with the issue of classification - without which effective generalisation is impossible - and offer a series of solutions to that particularly thorny methodological challenge. Only through systematic and objective classification is it possible to differentiate between and map different field systems, husbandry types, and land-use categories. That, in turn, makes it possible to consider and evaluate the relative roles of soils and topography, institutional structures, and commercialised market demand in shaping farm enterprise both during the period of mounting population before the Black Death and the long era of demographic decline that followed it. What emerges is an agrarian world more commercialised, differentiated, and complex than is usually appreciated, whose institutional and agronomic contours shaped the course of agricultural development for centuries to come.


Field Systems and Farming Systems in Late Medieval England Related Books

Field Systems and Farming Systems in Late Medieval England
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Bruce M.S. Campbell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-05-31 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The later Middle Ages was an overwhelmingly rural world, with probably three out of four households reliant upon farming for a living. Yet conventional accounts
Field Systems and Farming Systems in Late Medieval England
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: B. M. S. Campbell
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A majority of households on later Middle Ages relied upon farming for a living. Yet conventional accounts of the period rarely do justice to the variety of ways
Medieval Farming and Technology
Language: en
Pages: 333
Authors:
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-07-24 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This is the first of three planned volumes which deal with the techniques and technology of agriculture in Europe in the period from 600 A.D. down to the 17th c
Medieval Farming and Technology
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Grenville G. Astill
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This is the first of three planned volumes which deal with the techniques and technology of agriculture in Europe in the period from 600 A.D. down to the 17th c
The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 3, 1348-1500
Language: en
Pages: 1036
Authors: Edward Miller
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1967 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The third volume of The Agrarian History of England and Wales, which was first published in 1991, deals with the last century and a half of the Middle Ages. It