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Field Systems and Farming Systems in Late Medieval England (Paperback)
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Field Systems and Farming Systems in Late Medieval England (Paperback)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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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.
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