Explore
New Perspectives on the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’
0 Ungluers have
Faved this Work
Login to Fave
Across Europe, the early medieval period saw the advent of new ways of cereal farming which fed the growth of towns, markets and populations, but also fuelled wealth disparities and the rise of lordship. These developments have sometimes been referred to as marking an ‘agricultural revolution’, yet the nature and timing of these critical changes remain subject to intense debate, despite more than a century of research.
The papers in this volume demonstrate how the combined application of cutting-edge scientific analyses, along with new theoretical models and challenges to conventional understandings, can reveal trajectories of agricultural development which, while complementary overall, do not indicate a single period of change involving the extension of arable, the introduction of the mouldboard plough, and regular crop rotation. Rather, these phenomena become evident at different times and in different places across England throughout the period, and rarely in an unambiguously ‘progressive’ fashion.
Presenting innovative bioarchaeological research from the ground-breaking Feeding Anglo-Saxon England project, along with fresh insights into ploughing technology, brewing, the nature of agricultural revolutions, and farming practices in Roman Britain and Carolingian Europe, this volume is a critical new contribution to environmental archaeology and medieval studies in England and beyond.
This book is included in DOAB.
Why read this book? Have your say.
You must be logged in to comment.
Rights Information
Are you the author or publisher of this work? If so, you can claim it as yours by registering as an Unglue.it rights holder.Downloads
This work has been downloaded 27 times via unglue.it ebook links.
- 27 - pdf (CC BY-NC-ND) at OAPEN Library.
Keywords
- agricultural history
- archaeological science
- Archaeology
- Archaeology by period / region
- British Isles
- c 500 CE to c 1000 CE
- Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500
- early medieval
- England
- Environmental archaeology
- Europe
- field systems
- Geographical Qualifiers
- History
- History: earliest times to present day
- Humanities
- Landscape archaeology
- Medieval European archaeology
- Medieval history
- Time periods qualifiers
- United Kingdom, Great Britain
Editions