Format:
Online-Ressource (294 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781441135063
Content:
The landscape of medieval England was the product of a multitude of hands. While the power to shape the landscape inevitably lay with the Crown, the nobility and the religious houses, this study also highlights the contribution of the peasantry in the layout of rural settlements and ridge-and-furrow field works, and the funding of parish churches by ordinary townsfolk. The importance of population trends is emphasised as a major factor in shaping the medieval landscape: the rising curve of the eleventh to thirteenth centuries imposing growing pressures on resources, and the devastating impact
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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FC; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Note on measurements and other conventions; Abbreviations; Foreword; 1 Continuity and change in the medieval English landscape; 2 The landscape of farming and hunting; 3 The landscape of rural settlement; 4 The landscape of towns and trade; 5 The landscape of religion; 6 The landscape of fortification; 7 The end of the medieval English landscape?; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441181473
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441135063
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Medieval English Landscape, 1000-1540
Language:
English
Keywords:
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