Seasonal Settlement in the Medieval and Early Modern Countryside.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dixon, Piers

Contributor:

Theune, Claudia.

Series:

Ruralia.

Ruralia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Europe.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Human settlements--Europe--History.

Human settlements.

Seasons--Europe--History.

Seasons.

Europe--History--476-1492.

Europe.

Europe--History--1492-.

Europe--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Genre:

Electronic books.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2021.

Summary:

For the first time seasonality is placed at the centre of the study of rural settlement. Using a Europe-wide approach, it provides a primer of examples, of techniques and of ideas for the identification and understanding of seasonal settlement. As such, it marks an important new step in the interpretation of the use of the countryside by historic communities linked to the annual passage of the year. The particular studies are introduced by an opening essay which draws wider conclusions about the study of seasonal settlement, followed by 31 papers by authors from all parts of Europe and beyond.00By its very nature ephemeral, seasonal settlement in the medieval and early modern periods is less well researched than permanent settlement. It is often presumed that seasonal settlement is the result of transhumance, but it was only one facet of seasonal settlement. It was also necessitated by other forms of economic activity, such as fishing, charcoal-burning, or iron-smelting, including settlements of pastoralists such as nomads, drovers, herders as well as labourers? huts within the farming context. The season a settlement was occupied varied from one activity to another and from one place to another ? summer is good for grazing in many mountainous areas, but winter proved best for some industrial processes. While upland and mountainous settlements built of stone are easily recognised, those that use wood and more perishable materials are less obvious. Despite this, the settlements of nomadic pastoralists in both tundra and desert or of fishermen in the Baltic region are nonetheless identifiable. Yet for all that definitive recognition of seasonal settlement is rarely possible on archaeological grounds alone. Although material remains can be of particular importance, generally it is the combination of documentary information, ethnography, geographical context and palaeo-environmental data that provide frameworks for interpreting seasonal settlements.

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

Piers Dixon* and Claudia Theune**

Seasonal settlement in the medieval and early modern countryside: introduction

Piers Dixon*

Too much environment and not enough history: the opportunities and challenges in researching medieval seasonal settlement in Atlantic Europe

Richard Oram*

Archaeological research on seasonal settlements in the Iberian Peninsula - an overview

Catarina Tente* and Margarita Fernández Mier**

Early medieval seasonal settlement and vertical transhumance in an agricultural landscape in Ainet, East Tyrol, Austria

Elisabeth Waldhart* and Harald Stadler**

A multidisciplinary approach to the relationship between seasonal settlements and multiple uses: case studies from southern Europe (15th-21st centuries)

Anna Maria Stagno*

Transhumance in medieval Serbia - examples from the Pešter Plateau and northwestern slopes of the Prokletije Mountains

Uglješa Vojvodić*

Archaeology of the commons: seasonal settlements in the Cantabrian Mountains

Margarita Fernández Mier* and Pablo López Gómez**

Plows, herds, and chafurdões. Vernacular architecture and land use in modern Castelo de Vide (Alto Alentejo, Portugal)

Fabián Cuesta-Gómez* and Sara Prata**

From the Roman villa rustica to the early modern farmer's grange - specific forms of seasonal settlements in eastern Croatia

Pia Šmalcelj Novaković* and Anita Rapan Papeša**

Transhumant settlement in medieval Wales: the hafod

Rhiannon Comeau* and Bob Silvester**

Imagining and identifying seasonal resource exploitation on the margins of medieval Ireland

Eugene Costello*

Entangled flexibility, adaptability, and seasonality in inland Scandinavia - the case of agrarian outland use and settlement colonisation

Eva Svensson*

Upland habitation at Castle Campbell in the Ochils, Scotland: a multifunctional historic landscape at Dollar Glen

Daniel T. Rhodes*

Palynological data on vegetation and land use change at a shieling ground on Ben Lawers, central Scottish Highlands, since the 13th century AD

Richard Tipping* and Angus McEwen**

From seasonal settlement to medieval villages? Early medieval settlement in the coastal region of Uusimaa, southern Finland

Tuuli Heinonen*

Building crannogs in the 9th-12th centuries AD in northern Scotland: an old tradition in a new landscape

Michael J. Stratigos* and Gordon Noble**

This piece of singular bad neighbourhood: the Mamlorn Forest Dispute, Scotland, c. 1730-1744

Ian Maclellan*

Settlements of the Pskov long barrow culture: seasonal, temporary, or short-lived?

Elena Mikhaylova*

Connections between transhumance and whisky distilling in Highland Scotland

Notes:

Darroch D.M. Bratt*

ISBN:

946427011X

9789464270112

OCLC:

1276854756

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