Deserted Villages Revisited

by Dyer, Christopher; Jones, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781905313792
• ISBN10: 1905313799
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-01
• Publisher: University Of Hertfordshire Press

Summary

The starting point of this book was a meeting in 1948 in Leicestershire when historians and archaeologists visited newly identified sites of deserted villages. The excitement of these discoveries changed approaches to the medieval countryside. Sixty years later a new group of scholars went back to the same sites and debated their significance in the light of many advances in knowledge.

Author Biography

Christopher Dyer is Professor of Regional and Local History and Director of the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester.
Richard Jones is a Lecturer in Landscape History at the University of Leicester. Dr Jones has previously worked for the Sussex Archaeological Society and the University of Cardiff.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
List of tables	p. ix
Notes on contributors	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Series editors' preface	p. xv
Preface	p. xvii
Acknowledgements	p. xxi
The origins and development of deserted village studies	p. 1
Contrasting patterns of village and hamlet desertion in England	p. 8
Villages in crisis: social dislocation and desertion, 1370-1520	p. 28
Dr Hoskins I presume! Field visits in the footsteps of a pioneer	p. 46
Houses and communities: archaeological evidence for variation in medieval peasant experience	p. 64
Deserted medieval villages and the objects from them	p. 85
The desertion of Wharram Percy village and its wider context	p. 109
Understanding village desertion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries	p. 121
Abandoning the uplands: depopulation among dispersed settlements in western Britain	p. 140
'At Pleasure's Lordly Call': the archaeology of emparked settlements	p. 162
Deserted villages revisited: in the past, the present and the future	p. 182
Bibliography	p. 184
Index	p. 201
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