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The Foldcourse and East Anglian Agriculture and Landscape, 1100-1900 (Hardcover)
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The Foldcourse and East Anglian Agriculture and Landscape, 1100-1900 (Hardcover)
Series: Garden and Landscape History
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First survey of one of the most important pre-modern farming
systems, and its effects on society and landscape. A landmark
volume... essential reading for all those interested in social,
agricultural and landscape history, as well as in East Anglia's
past. Professor Tom Williamson, University of East Anglia. England
in the medieval and early modern periods was farmed under a wide
range of agrarian regimes, each of which was both engendered by,
and had in turn a determining influence upon, innumerable aspects
of society and landscape. Reconstructing the complex history of
these systems - how they actually worked on the ground, how and why
they first developed and how they evolved over time - is thus
crucial for our understanding of the lived experience of past
generations and the physical environments which they inhabited. But
studies of past agricultural regimes which are detailed enough to
highlight their full social, economic and environmental character
and implications, are surprisingly thin on the ground. This
innovative book dissects the character of one key example - the
foldcourse system of East Anglia - from its genesis in the early
Middle Ages to its demise in the nineteenth century. It casts a
mass of new light on an institution that structured rural life in
one region of England, over many centuries. But it also provides
important new insights into the nature of early farming systems
more generally, and the intricate balance of human agency, and
environmental structures, that shaped and sustained them.
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