A Breton Landscape: From The Romans To The Second Empire In Eastern Brittany

by *Nfa*; Wendy Davies

• ISBN13: 9781857284522
• ISBN10: 1857284526
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This is a case study of changing land-use patterns in Brittany over nearly 2000 years.

Author Biography

Grenville Astill is Reader in Archaeology at the University of Reading Wendy Davies is Professor of History and Pro-Provost (European Affairs) at University College London

Table of Contents

List of figures	x	(5)
List of tables	xv	(2)
Preface	xvii	(2)
Abbreviations	xix
PART 1: THE APPROACH	3	(58)
1 The problematic	3	(7)
2 Method and methodology	10	(23)
Archives	10	(5)
Archaeological survey	15	(6)
Fieldwalking	16	(2)
Excavation strategy	18	(3)
Archaeological environmental work	21	(1)
Standing buildings	22	(5)
APPENDIX A: Principal archives consulted	27	(1)
APPENDIX B: A note on refuse disposal and manuring	28	(5)
3 Context	33	(28)
Geography and geology	33	(22)
The survey area	36	(3)
The region in historic time	39	(9)
The region now	48	(4)
The survey area	52	(3)
APPENDIX: A note on parishes and communes	55	(6)
PART 2: CHANGING LAND-USE IN THE LANDSCAPE OF EAST BRITTANY	61	(195)
4 Romans and provincials	61	(30)
Prehistory	61	(9)
Later prehistory	63	(4)
Wider perspectives	67	(3)
Roman settlement	70	(9)
Roman arable	77	(2)
The wider Roman context	79	(12)
Change in the Roman countryside	85	(6)
5 The problem of the early middle ages	91	(25)
The ninth century	92	(7)
Fabric 10	99	(8)
The impact of Redon	107	(3)
Possibilities	110	(6)
6 Nobles and peasants	116	(33)
Castles and towns	116	(3)
The importance of pottery	119	(8)
Land-use and settlement	119	(5)
Settlement pattern	124	(3)
Opening up new lands	127	(10)
Land-use and settlement	127	(5)
Settlement pattern	132	(2)
Nobles and peasants	134	(3)
A different world	137	(10)
APPENDIX: A note on metairies	147	(2)
7 Landscaping	149	(17)
Changing land-use and settlement shift	149	(5)
New lands	149	(3)
Settlement shift	152	(2)
Sixteenth-century transformations	154	(12)
Chateau landscaping	155	(11)
8 Rising population	166	(31)
Archives and land-use	167	(3)
Population	170	(13)
Mortality	171	(5)
Changes in population over time	176	(7)
Post-medieval pottery	183	(14)
Land-use and pottery distribution	186	(3)
Accumulations of sherds	189	(4)
Refuse disposal	193	(4)
9 Work and housing	197	(23)
Settlement and buildings	197	(10)
Settlement	197	(3)
Houses	200	(4)
The dynamic of settlement change	204	(3)
Work	207	(4)
Pre-industrial society	211	(8)
APPENDIX: A note on settlement types and terminology	219	(1)
10 After the Revolution	220	(21)
The population	221	(3)
Settlement and buildings	224	(4)
Pottery	228	(5)
Land-use	233	(4)
Land, product and work	237	(4)
11 The Longue Duree	241	(15)
Methods	241	(2)
The core in regional context	243	(3)
Long-term trends	246	(8)
Population	246	(1)
Landscape	247	(1)
Settlement	248	(3)
Landscape, land-use and settlement	251	(3)
Rapid changes	254	(2)
Bibliography	256	(8)
Index	264