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Peasant perspectives on the Medieval landscape : a study of three communities / Susan Kilby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kilby, Susan, author.
- Series:
- Studies in regional and local history (Hertfordshire, England) ; v. 17.
- Studies in regional and local history ; volume 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peasants.
- History.
- Agriculture.
- England--Social conditions--1066-1485.
- England.
- Social conditions.
- England--Agriculture--History.
- Great Britain--History--Medieval period, 1066-1485.
- Great Britain.
- Peasants--England--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 238 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Hatfield, Hertfordshire : University of Hertfordshire Press, 2020.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
- Geographic scope
- Elton, Huntingdonshire
- Castor, Northamptonshire
- Lakenheath, Suffolk
- Sources
- 2. Understanding the seigneurial landscape
- From inclusive to exclusive? Seigneurial perceptions of rural settlement in the later Anglo-Saxon period
- Conspicuous display and veiled privacy: from the Norman Conquest to the Black Death
- 3. Ordering the landscape
- Organising the landscape of the medieval vill: seigneurial and peasant zones
- Encountering the built environment: rural peasant dwellings
- Delineating peasant space within the medieval manor
- Off the beaten track: the hidden morphology of the rural landscape
- 4. The unseen landscape
- Understanding topographical bynames
- Knowing your place: contrasting peasant landscapes within medieval manors?
- Mapping topographical bynames: Norman Cross hundred
- Aboveton: from indicator of place to socially constructed landscape
- Mapping topographical bynames: Huntingdonshire - the bigger picture
- Conclusions: personal status and topographical bynames
- 5. Naming the landscape
- Reassessing minor medieval landscape names
- Ordering field and furlong
- Distinguishing field and furlong
- The natural environment
- The supernatural environment
- Looking backward: naming the landscape
- The dynamics of landscape naming: cultural names
- 6. The remembered landscape
- Beyond taxonomy: the secret life of the fields
- 7. The economic landscape
- The rural environment as an economic resource: the demesne
- The rural environment as an economic resource: peasant arable production
- Hidden peasant economies: fishing
- Hidden peasant economies: sheep farming
- Conclusions - hidden peasant economies
- 8. Managing the landscape
- Waste not, want not: the natural world as a resource
- As common as muck: keeping the land in good heart
- Scientific fields: peasants and medieval science
- Ten men went to mow: managing medieval meadowland
- Mires, mores and meres: managing fenland resources
- A ditch in time: managing drainage and water resources
- Conclusions - managing the landscape
- 9. Conclusion
- Unveiling the peasant environment
- Living in rural communities
- Social status reconsidered
- Detecting peasant agency
- Memory and history in the rural landscape
- Making a living in rural England
- Peasant perspectives on the medieval landscape: concluding thoughts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-225) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1912260204
- 9781912260201
- 1912260212
- 9781912260218
- OCLC:
- 1122909320
- Publisher Number:
- 99985624320
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