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Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England (Hardcover, New)
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Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England (Hardcover, New)
Series: Medieval History and Archaeology
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The first study of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman canals and
waterways, this book is based on new evidence surrounding the
nature of water transport in the period. England is naturally
well-endowed with a network of navigable rivers, especially the
easterly systems draining into the Thames, Wash and Humber. The
central middle ages saw innovative and extensive development of
this network, including the digging of canals bypassing difficult
stretches of rivers, or linking rivers to important production
centres. The eleventh and twelfth centuries seem to have been the
high point for this dynamic approach to water-transport: after
1200, the improvement of roads and bridges increasingly diverted
resources away from the canals, many of which stagnated with the
reassertion of natural drainage patterns.
The new perspective presented in this study has an important
bearing on the economy, landscape, settlement patterns and
inter-regional contacts of medieval England. Essays from economic
historians, geographers, geomorphologists, archaeologists, and
place-name scholars unearth this neglected but important aspect of
medieval engineering and economic growth.
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