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Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming (Hardcover)
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Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming (Hardcover)
Series: Medieval History and Archaeology
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Farming was the basis of the wealth that made England worth
invading, twice, in the eleventh century, while trade and
manufacturing were insignificant by modern standards. In
Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming, the authors employ a wide range of
evidence to investigate how Anglo-Saxon farmers produced the food
and other agricultural products that sustained English economy,
society, and culture before the Norman Conquest. The first part of
the volume draws on written and pictorial sources, archaeology,
place-names, and the history of the English language to discover
what crops and livestock people raised, and what tools and
techniques were used to produce them. In part two, using a series
of landscape studies - place-names, maps, and the landscape itself,
the authors explore how these techniques might have been combined
into working agricultural regimes in different parts of the
country. A picture emerges of an agriculture that changed from an
essentially prehistoric state in the sub-Roman period to what was
recognisably the beginning of a tradition that only ended with the
Second World War. Anglo-Saxon farming was not only sustainable, but
infinitely adaptable to different soils and geology, and to a
climate changing as unpredictably as it is today.
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