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A Breton landscape / Grenville Astill & Wendy Davies.
LIBRA HD649.B8 A85 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Astill, Grenville G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land use--France--Brittany--History.
- Land use.
- History.
- France--Brittany.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : UCL Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- This unique case-study of changing land-use and settlement patterns over nearly 2000 years, from the Roman period to the sixteenth century, explores the interface between history, archaeology and geography. Examining important issues such as methodology and problems of evidence, within a historical and geographical context, the authors break new ground in the Interdisciplinary investigation of the past. As a work of archaeological and historical interpretation, it will inform all future research in this field, proving of particular importance to those interested in the rural and landscape history of Western Europe.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Approach
- 1 The problematic 3
- 2 Method and methodology 10
- Archives 10
- Archaeological survey 15
- Fieldwalking 16
- Excavation strategy 18
- Archaeological environmental work 21
- Standing buildings 22
- Appendix A Principal archives consulted 27
- Appendix B A note on refuse disposal and manuring 28
- 3 Context 33
- Geography and geology 33
- The survey area 36
- The region in historic time 39
- The region now 48
- The survey area 52
- Appendix A note on parishes and communes 55
- Part 2 Changing Land-Use in the Landscape of East Brittany
- 4 Romans and provincials 61
- Prehistory 61
- Later prehistory 63
- Wider perspectives 67
- Roman settlement 70
- Roman arable 77
- The wider Roman context 79
- Change in the Roman countryside 85
- 5 The problem of the early middle ages 91
- The ninth century 92
- Fabric 10 99
- The impact of Redon 107
- Possibilities 110
- 6 Nobles and peasants 116
- Castles and towns 116
- The importance of pottery 119
- Land-use and settlement 119
- Settlement pattern 124
- Opening up new lands 127
- Land-use and settlement 127
- Settlement pattern 132
- Nobles and peasants 134
- A different world 137
- Appendix A note on metairies 147
- 7 Landscaping 149
- Changing land-use and settlement shift 149
- New lands 149
- Settlement shift 152
- Sixteenth-century transformations 154
- Chateau landscaping 155
- 8 Rising population 166
- Archives and land-use 167
- Population 170
- Mortality 171
- Changes in population over time 176
- Post-medieval pottery 183
- Land-use and pottery distribution 186
- Accumulations of sherds 189
- Refuse disposal 193
- 9 Work and housing 197
- Settlement and buildings 197
- Settlement 197
- Houses 200
- The dynamic of settlement change 204
- Work 207
- Pre-industrial society 211
- Appendix A note on settlement types and terminology 219
- 10 After the Revolution 220
- The population 221
- Settlement and buildings 224
- Pottery 228
- Land-use 233
- Land, product and work 237
- 11 The Longue Duree 241
- Methods 241
- The core in regional context 243
- Long-term trends 246
- Population 246
- Landscape 247
- Settlement 248
- Landscape, land-use and settlement 251
- Rapid changes 254.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-263) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1857284526
- OCLC:
- 38533488
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