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The Spade in de Dijk is the first synthesis on the organisation of water management in Coastal Flanders during the later Middle Ages. Based on the unique archival evidence produced by local water boards (wateringen), large landowners and local and regional authorities, Tim Soens argues for the occurrence of profound changes in coastal water management in the later Middle Ages. Water management gradually became less inclusive, investments lowered, and flood risk increased. This evolution was triggered by the social transition from a peasant society of land-owning smallholders to a society of absentee landlords and large tenant farmers.
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Keywords
- Belgium
- c 1000 CE to c 1500
- c 1500 to c 1600
- coastal Flanders
- Dikes (Engineering)
- Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500
- Europe
- European History
- Flemish
- For emergent readers (adult)
- Geographical Qualifiers
- Germanic & Scandinavian languages
- History
- History: earliest times to present day
- History: specific events & topics
- Humanities
- Indo-European languages
- Interest age & special interest qualifiers
- Interest age / level
- Language qualifiers
- Maritime history
- Middle Ages
- Modern period, c 1500 onwards
- Reclamation of land
- Regional & national history
- Time periods qualifiers
- water boards
- Water districts
- water management
- Western Continental Europe
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DOI: 10.26530/OAPEN_611030Editions