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Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming (Paperback)
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Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming (Paperback)
Series: Medieval History and Archaeology
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Anglo-Saxon farming made England so wealthy by the eleventh century
that it attracted two full-scale invasions. In Anglo-Saxon Farms
and Farming, Debby Banham and Rosamond Faith explore how
Anglo-Saxon farmers produced the food and other crops and animal
products that sustained England's economy, society, and culture
before the Norman Conquest. The volume is made up of two
complementary sections: the first examines written and pictorial
sources, archaeological evidence, place-names, and the history of
the English language to discover what kind of crops and livestock
people raised, and what tools and techniques they used in producing
them. The second part assembles a series of local landscape studies
to explore how these techniques were combined into working
agricultural regimes in different environments. These perspectives
allow the authors to take new approaches to the chronology and
development of open-field farming, to the changing relationship
between livestock husbandry and arable cultivation, and to the
values and social relationships which under-pinned rural life. The
elite are not ignored, but peasant famers are represented as
agents, making decisions about the way they managed their resources
and working lives. A picture emerges of an agriculture that changed
from an essentially prehistoric state in the sub-Roman period to
what was, by the time of the Conquest, recognizably the beginning
of a tradition that only ended in the modern period. 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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