English Field Systems
Author : Howard Levi Gray
Publisher :
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 1915
Category : History
ISBN :
Studies of Field Systems in the British Isles
Author : Alan R. H. Baker
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 1973-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521201216
Book Description
An enormous amount of research into British field systems has been undertaken by historical geographers, economic historians and others since H. L. Gray's classic work on English Field Systems was published. This book both synthesizes and advances our knowledge of field systems in the British Isles.
Field Systems and Farming Systems in Late Medieval England
Author : Bruce M.S. Campbell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1000944433
Book Description
The later Middle Ages was an overwhelmingly rural world, with probably three out of four households reliant upon farming for a living. Yet conventional accounts of the period rarely do justice to the variety of ways in which the land was managed and worked. The thirteen essays collected in this volume draw upon the abundant documentary evidence of the period to explore that diversity. In the process they engage with the issue of classification - without which effective generalisation is impossible - and offer a series of solutions to that particularly thorny methodological challenge. Only through systematic and objective classification is it possible to differentiate between and map different field systems, husbandry types, and land-use categories. That, in turn, makes it possible to consider and evaluate the relative roles of soils and topography, institutional structures, and commercialised market demand in shaping farm enterprise both during the period of mounting population before the Black Death and the long era of demographic decline that followed it. What emerges is an agrarian world more commercialised, differentiated, and complex than is usually appreciated, whose institutional and agronomic contours shaped the course of agricultural development for centuries to come.
The Open Field System and Beyond
Author : Carl J. Dahlman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 39,83 MB
Release : 1980-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521228817
Book Description
In this book, Professor Dahlman applies modern economic methodology to an old historical problem. He demonstrates how the quaint institutions of the ancient English open field system of agriculture can be understood as an intelligent and rational adaptation to a particular problem of production and to certain historical circumstances. He argues that the two major characteristics of this type of agriculture - scattered strips owned by individual peasants and extensive areas of common land - both fulfilled vital economic functions. This overturns the traditional view of the open field system as inefficient and rigidly bound by tradition, and throws light on the behaviour of medeival peasants. Professor Dahlman also offers some generalisations about the economic theory of institutions and institutional change, refuting the idea that an economic analysis of institutions must necessarily be deterministic. As a challenge to some of the fundamental criticisms of the application of economic theory to historical problems, the book will be of great interest to agrarian historians and to economic historians generally, as well as to specialists in the medieval period.
The English Medieval Landscape
Author : Leonard Cantor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1000368661
Book Description
First published in 1982, The English Medieval Landscape was written to recreate and analyse the development of the major elements of the medieval landscape. Illustrated with maps and photographs, the book explores the nature of the English landscape between 1066 and 1485, from farms and chases to castles, monastic settlements, villages, roads, and more. The English Medieval Landscape will appeal to those with an interest in medieval history and British social history.
The Tithe Surveys of England and Wales
Author : Roger J. P. Kain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 21,50 MB
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521024310
Book Description
This book describes the nature of tithe payments, the Tithe Commutation Act of 1836 and the survey of over 11,000 parishes.
The English Village Community Examined in Its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common Or Open Field System of Husbandry
Author : Frederic Seebohm
Publisher :
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 26,89 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Village communities
ISBN :
Book Description
The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 3, 1348-1500
Author : Edward Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 39,6 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521200745
Book Description
The third volume of The Agrarian History of England and Wales, which was first published in 1991, deals with the last century and a half of the Middle Ages. It concerns itself with the new demographic and economic circumstances created in large measure by endemic plague.
The Oxford Companion to Family and Local History
Author : David Hey
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0191044938
Book Description
The Oxford Companion to Family and Local History is the most authoritative guide available to all things associated with the family and local history of the British Isles. It provides practical and contextual information for anyone enquiring into their English, Irish, Scottish, or Welsh origins and for anyone working in genealogical research, or the social history of the British Isles. This fully revised and updated edition contains over 2,000 entries from adoption to World War records. Recommended web links for many entries are accessed and updated via the Family and Local History companion website. This edition provides guidance on how to research your family tree using the internet and details the full range of online resources available. Newly structured for ease of use, thematic articles are followed by the A-Z dictionary and detailed appendices, which includefurther reading. New articles for this edition are: A Guide for Beginners, Links between British and American Families, Black and Asian Family History, and an extended feature on Names. With handy research tips, a full background to the social history of communities and individuals, and an updated appendix listing all national and local record offices with their contact details, this is an essential reference work for anyone wanting advice on how to approach genealogical research, as well as a fascinating read for anyone interested in the past.
British Economic and Social History
Author : R. C. Richardson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780719036002
