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New Perspectives on the Medieval 'Agricultural Revolution' - Crop, Stock and Furrow (Paperback)
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New Perspectives on the Medieval 'Agricultural Revolution' - Crop, Stock and Furrow (Paperback)
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An Open Access edition is available on the LUP and OAPEN websites.
Across Europe, the early medieval period saw the advent of new ways
of cereal farming which fed the growth of towns, markets and
populations, but also fuelled wealth disparities and the rise of
lordship. These developments have sometimes been referred to as
marking an 'agricultural revolution', yet the nature and timing of
these critical changes remain subject to intense debate, despite
more than a century of research. The papers in this volume
demonstrate how the combined application of cutting-edge scientific
analyses, along with new theoretical models and challenges to
conventional understandings, can reveal trajectories of
agricultural development which, while complementary overall, do not
indicate a single period of change involving the extension of
arable, the introduction of the mouldboard plough, and regular crop
rotation. Rather, these phenomena become evident at different times
and in different places across England throughout the period, and
rarely in an unambiguously 'progressive' fashion. Presenting
innovative bioarchaeological research from the ground-breaking
Feeding Anglo-Saxon England project, along with fresh insights into
ploughing technology, brewing, the nature of agricultural
revolutions, and farming practices in Roman Britain and Carolingian
Europe, this volume is a critical new contribution to environmental
archaeology and medieval studies in England and beyond.
Contributors: Amy Bogaard; Hannah Caroe; Neil Faulkner; Emily
Forster; Helena Hamerow; Matilda Holmes; Claus Kropp; Lisa Lodwick;
Mark McKerracher; Nicolas Schroeder; Elizabeth Stroud; Tom
Williamson.
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