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9780953863037

Village, Hamlet and Field

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  • ISBN13:

    9780953863037

  • ISBN10:

    0953863034

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-04-01
  • Publisher: Windgather Pr
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Summary

Available for the first time in paperback, this volume is one of the most important and controversial studies of medieval settlement and landscape to have been published in the last ten years. The authors address a question that has fascinated and perplexed landscape historians: when and why did the nucleated village and its associated common field system arise, and why did it emerge in some areas and not in others? Drawing on their detailed study of a group of shires in central England, the authors date the origin of the nucleated village to the period 850-1200. They identify a 'village moment', when, in some areas of extensive arable farming, settlement was reorganized. These villages were planned, the result of a deliberate decision: population pressure, resource depletion, market forces, or the initiative of a lord may all have influenced their builders. Nucleation was invariably associated with the introduction of a common field system, and has to be seen in the context of the wider regularization of law and custom in the medieval world. Villages were created as institutional communities: tofts, tithes, taxes and tenancies were all connected in a new economic system. In other areas a transformation of the landscape along these lines was never deemed necessary or desirable, and though the settlement pattern was changed, its dispersed character persisted and flourished. After 1300, as the famine and Black Death took hold, most villages contracted, and in some cases the internal and external pressures led to their desertion.

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables
vi
Preface to the Paperback Edition x
Abbreviations xi
The Study of Villages and Landscapes in Medieval England
1(32)
The East Midlands Counties: an Introduction
33(34)
Settlement from Prehistory until the Norman Conquest
67(35)
Rural Settlement c. 1066--1500
102(33)
Historical Evidence for Settlement, Society and Landscape c. 1066--1500
135(35)
Explaining Settlement Form
170(21)
The Evolution of Rural Settlement
191(15)
Bibliography 206(13)
Bibliography of Works Published 1994--2000 219(2)
Index 221

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