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The Allotment
Colin Ward, David Crouch; Introduction by Olivia Laing
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Allotments are sanctuaries for growing, often on the fringes of
suburbia, where life is getting ever more stressful and expensive.
Here, a simple urge to grow-your-own or become self-sufficient,
brings us closer to a community of people, wildlife and plants that
are often more diverse than the cities and towns that surround
them. An allotment is a utopia. It is a green place where anyone
can occupy a piece of land, and grow with freedom of expression.
Allotmenteering started with The Diggers in seventeenth-century
Surrey, in response to the Enclosure Acts which deprived ordinary
people of access to land. But the idea spread, first across England
and the British Isles, then through Europe and the world. 'The
Allotment', originally published in 1988, is the classic study of
allotments. Encompassing the oral recordings of plot-holders
alongside descriptions of regional variations on the plot itself,
such as pigeon-fancying, seed collecting or leek competitions, it
looks at British society and history through the prism of
allotments. With a new introduction by Olivia Laing, this is a
story that is just as relevant today, and is essential for those
interested in social history, land ownership and gardening in
twenty-first century Britain.
Tourism studies and media studies both address key issues about how
we perceive the world. They raise acute questions about how we
relate local knowledge and immediate experience to wider global
processes, and they both play a major role in creating our map of
national and international cultures. Adopting a multidisciplinary
approach, this book explores the interactions between tourism and
media practices within a contemporary culture in which the
consumption of images has become increasingly significant. A number
of common themes and concerns arise, and the contributions included
are divided between those: written from media studies awareness
perspective, concerned with the way the media imagines travel and
tourism written from the point of view of the study of tourism,
considering how tourism practices are affected or altered by the
media that attempt a direct comparison between the practices of
tourism and the media. Incorporating case study material from the
UK, the Caribbean, Australia, the US, France and Switzerland, this
significant text - ideal for students of culture, media and tourism
studies - discusses tourism and the media as separate processes
through which identity is constructed in relation to space and
place.
This volume considers leisure/tourism as an encounter. An encounter
that exists between people, between people and space and between
people and their expectations, experiences and desires. The
contributors explore diverse aspects of leisure and tourism,
ranging from the methodologies behind leisure practices to detailed
case studies including: Disneyland, Paris; tourism in sacred
landscapes; leisure practices in cyberspace; leisure and yachting;
use of recreational/holiday cottages; National Parks; and local
parks and gardens. Presenting a mix of attitudes and ideas
concerning leisure and tourism, this book documents a debate,
placing geography at its centre.
An authoritative and comprehensive account of an important area
centred around the town of Howden. This is the second part of a
study of Howdenshire, containing a history of the town of Howden
and its ancient minster, the least known of the great medieval
churches of Yorkshire. The volume also deals with the lordship and
civilunit of which the town was the heart, the area called
Howdenshire, one of the more complicated regions of England. The
book offers a history of the origins and development of the liberty
of the bishop of Durham, its ruler until 1836. The liberty of
Howdenshire covered all the bishop's possessions in the East
Riding, and the book looks at the liberty's scattered exclaves
across it, offering a full township and parish study of the most
important of them, Welton with Melton, a distant and detached part
of Howdenshire until 1894. Finally, the book deals with the two
ancient commons associated with Howdenshire. The first is
Bishopsoil, a common of 4,000 acres within the bishop's lordship.
The volume also contains a study of the administration, drainage
and ecology of the great 4,500 acre wetland common of Wallingfen,
east of Howdenshire, which from around 1280 until 1781 was governed
by the gentry and freeholders of the surrounding parishes, an area
of England unique in its history, governance and economy.
David Crouch's William Marshal, now in its third edition, depicts
this intriguing medieval figure as a ruthless opportunist, astute
courtier, manipulative politician and a brutal but efficient
soldier. Born the fourth son of a minor baron, he ended his days as
Earl of Pembroke and Regent of England, and was the only medieval
knight to have a contemporary biography written about him. Using
this biography in addition to the many other primary sources
dedicated to him, the author provides a narrative of William
Marshal and a survey of the times in which he lived and also
considers the problems and questions posed by the History. The
third edition has been extensively updated and revised, and now
includes: expanded sections on the reality of medieval tournaments
and warfare as it is described in the biography an in-depth study
of Marshal's family life and children based on the latest research
including material from the new edition of the Marshal family acts
and letters more on Marshal's royal patrons and contemporaries, in
particular the relationship between Marshal and his nemesis, King
John. William Marshal explores the world of medieval knighthood and
the the aristocratic life of the times in engaging, readable prose,
and is a unique resource for students of medieval history.
At last: an authoritative, up to date account of the troubled reign
of King Stephen, by a leading scholar of the Anglo-Norman world.
David Crouch covers every aspect of the period - the king and the
empress, the aristocracy, the Church, government and the nation at
large. He also looks at the wider dimensions of the story, in
Scotland, Wales, Normandy and elsewhere. The result (weaving its
discussions around a vigorous narrative core) is a a work of major
scholarship. A must for specialist and amateur medievalists alike.
For 300 years separate and mutually uncomprehending English and
French historiographies have confused the history of medieval
aristocracy. Unpicking the basic assumptions behind both national
traditions, this book explains them, reconciles them and offers
entirely new ways to take the study of aristocracy forward in both
England and France. The Birth of Nobility analyses the enormous
international field of publications on the subject of medieval
aristocracy, breaking it down into four key debates: noble conduct,
noble lineage, noble class and noble power. Each issue is subjected
to a thorough review by comparing current scholarship with what a
vast range of historical source material actually says. It
identifies the points of divergence in the national traditions of
each of these debates and highlights where they have been mutually
incomprehensible. For students studying medieval Europe.
David Crouch's William Marshal, now in its third edition, depicts
this intriguing medieval figure as a ruthless opportunist, astute
courtier, manipulative politician and a brutal but efficient
soldier. Born the fourth son of a minor baron, he ended his days as
Earl of Pembroke and Regent of England, and was the only medieval
knight to have a contemporary biography written about him. Using
this biography in addition to the many other primary sources
dedicated to him, the author provides a narrative of William
Marshal and a survey of the times in which he lived and also
considers the problems and questions posed by the History. The
third edition has been extensively updated and revised, and now
includes: expanded sections on the reality of medieval tournaments
and warfare as it is described in the biography an in-depth study
of Marshal's family life and children based on the latest research
including material from the new edition of the Marshal family acts
and letters more on Marshal's royal patrons and contemporaries, in
particular the relationship between Marshal and his nemesis, King
John. William Marshal explores the world of medieval knighthood and
the the aristocratic life of the times in engaging, readable prose,
and is a unique resource for students of medieval history.
David Crouch provides a broad definition of aristorcracy by
examining the ways aristocrats behaved and lived between 1000 and
1300. He analyses life-style, class and luxurious living in those
years. A distinctive feature of the book is that it takes a
British, rather than Anglocentric, view - looking at the
penetration of Welsh and Scottish society by Anglo-French ideas of
aristocracy.
For 300 years separate and mutually uncomprehending English and
French historiographies have confused the history of medieval
aristocracy. Unpicking the basic assumptions behind both national
traditions, this book explains them, reconciles them and offers
entirely new ways to take the study of aristocracy forward in both
England and France. The Birth of Nobility analyses the enormous
international field of publications on the subject of medieval
aristocracy, breaking it down into four key debates: noble conduct,
noble lineage, noble class and noble power. Each issue is subjected
to a thorough review by comparing current scholarship with what a
vast range of historical source material actually says. It
identifies the points of divergence in the national traditions of
each of these debates and highlights where they have been mutually
incomprehensible. For students studying medieval Europe.
Discussion of display through a range of artefacts and in a variety
of contexts: family and lineage, social distinction and aspiration,
ceremony and social bonding, and the expression of power and
authority. Medieval culture was intensely visual. Although this has
long been recognised by art historians and by enthusiasts for
particular media, there has been little attempt to study social
display as a subject in its own right. And yet,display takes us
directly into the values, aspirations and, indeed, anxieties of
past societies. In this illustrated volume a group of experts
address a series of interrelated themes around the issue of display
and do so in a waywhich avoids jargon and overly technical
language. Among the themes are family and lineage, social
distinction and aspiration, ceremony and social bonding, and the
expression of power and authority. The media include monumental
effigies, brasses, stained glass, rolls of arms, manuscripts,
jewels, plate, seals and coins. Contributors: MAURICE KEEN, DAVID
CROUCH, PETER COSS, CAROLINE SHENTON, ADRIAN AILES, FREDERIQUE
LACHAUD, MARIAN CAMPBELL, BRIAN and MOIRA GITTOS, NIGEL SAUL, FIONN
PILBROW, CAROLINE BARRON and JOHN WATTS.
Introduces undergraduates to the key debates regarding space and
culture and the key theoretical arguments which guide cultural
geographical work. This book addresses the impact, significance,
and characteristics of the 'cultural turn' in contemporary
geography. It focuses on the development of the cultural geography
subdiscipline and on what has made it a peculiar and unique realm
of study. It demonstrates the importance of culture in the
development of debates in other subdisciplines within geography and
beyond. In line with these previous themes, the significance of
space in the production of cultural values and expressions is also
developed. Along with its timely examination of the health of the
cultural geographical subdiscipline, this book is to be valued for
its analysis of the impact of cultural theory on studies elsewhere
in geography and of ideas of space and spatiality elsewhere in the
social sciences.
At last: an authoritative, up to date account of the troubled reign
of King Stephen, by a leading scholar of the Anglo-Norman world.
David Crouch covers every aspect of the period - the king and the
empress, the aristocracy, the Church, government and the nation at
large. He also looks at the wider dimensions of the story, in
Scotland, Wales, Normandy and elsewhere. The result (weaving its
discussions around a vigorous narrative core) is a a work of major
scholarship. A must for specialist and amateur medievalists alike.
The idea of 'flirting' with space is central to this book. Space is
conceptualised as being in constant flux as we make our way through
various contexts in our daily lives, and is considered in relation
to encounters with complexities and flows of material culture. This
book focuses on journeys, which are perceived as dynamic processes
of contemporary life and its spaces, and how creativity happens in
the inter-relations of space and journeys encourage creativity.
Unravelled through a range of empirical case studies of journeys
through and encountered with space, this book builds new critical
syntheses of the intertwining of space and life. Based on
investigations undertaken by the author over the past 20 years, it
explores the mundane and the exotic, the 'lay' and the 'artistic',
combining and inter-relating them in a diversity of time and
expression, fleeting and surviving. Such investigations, using both
visual and non-visual material, include examinations of allotment
holding, the work of artists, caravanning and tourism, photography
and parish maps. The analyses of such seemingly disparate subjects
are linked together and build on each other to create a fascinating
and original view of humanity's interaction with space. Included
are fresh discussions of belonging, disorientation and the working
of identity and play. The notion of 'gentle politics' is
introduced.
David Crouch provides a broad definition of aristorcracy by examining the ways aristocrats behaved and lived between 1000 and 1300. He analyses life-style, class and luxurious living in those years. A distinctive feature of the book is that it takes a British, rather than Anglocentric, view - looking at the penetration of Welsh and Scottish society by Anglo-French ideas of aristocracy.
Introduces undergraduates to the key debates regarding space and
culture and the key theoretical arguments which guide cultural
geographical work. This book addresses the impact, significance,
and characteristics of the 'cultural turn' in contemporary
geography. It focuses on the development of the cultural geography
subdiscipline and on what has made it a peculiar and unique realm
of study. It demonstrates the importance of culture in the
development of debates in other subdisciplines within geography and
beyond. In line with these previous themes, the significance of
space in the production of cultural values and expressions is also
developed. Along with its timely examination of the health of the
cultural geographical subdiscipline, this book is to be valued for
its analysis of the impact of cultural theory on studies elsewhere
in geography and of ideas of space and spatiality elsewhere in the
social sciences.
David Crouch presents a reconstruction and edition of the cartulary
of the one of Yorkshire's leading medieval families. The Methams
were once a leading gentry family of Yorkshire, whose origins can
be traced to a member of the twelfth-century minster community of
Howden. By 1405 the family had reached a peak of its influence,
with great estates spread across the East Riding and Vale of York
acquired through marriage, the rewards of office and also by
exploiting the debt market. At that point Sir Alexander Metham
commissioned a cartulary, a book in which to register the family's
deeds and other documents, of which there were once well over a
thousand. The cartulary survived till around 1680 and carried with
it a large part of the history of the East Riding. But then it
disappeared, though not before it had attracted the attention of
two great Yorkshire antiquaries, Dr Nathaniel Johnston and James
Torre. Their transcripts from this lost volume allow a
reconstruction of over 700 items of its former contents, and with
it open a new window on Yorkshire in the middle ages. The edition
offers in addition a new biography of Torre and a key to the
decoding of Johnston's notorious handwriting, which has frustrated
and defeated scholars for over two centuries.
Tourism studies and media studies both address key issues about how
we perceive the world. They raise acute questions about how we
relate local knowledge and immediate experience to wider global
processes and both play a major role in creating our map of
national and international cultures. The Media and the Tourist
Imagination adopts a multidisciplinary approach to explore the
interactions between tourism and media practices within a
contemporary culture in which the consumption of images has become
increasingly significant. The contributions are divided between
those written from media studies awareness, concerned with the way
the media imagine travel and tourism; those written from the point
of view of the study of tourism, which consider how tourism
practices are affected or inflected by the media, and those that
attempt a direct comparison between the practices of tourism and
the media. A number of common themes and concerns arise with
particular emphasis upon the image as the object of consumption.
collection is also concerned to mark out their different approaches
to the structuring and organizin of experience and the way in which
this leads to a dynamic interchange between them. Tourism and the
media are discussed as separate processes through which identity is
constructed in relation to space and place.
An authoritative and comprehensive account of an important area
centred around the town of Howden. This is the first part to be
published of a two-part volume on the East Riding liberty and
wapentake of Howdenshire. It deals with the nineteen civil parishes
and townships which made up the liberty outside the town of Howden
itself. Until 1836 Howdenshire was one of the bishop of Durham's
exempt franchises in Yorkshire, enclaves which survived the
Reformation and Civil War. Its special nature, which is mostly
ancient wetland reclaimed in the twelfth century, is explored via
in-depth sections on drainage and river defence, with a
reconstruction of the unique medieval and early modern scheme
developed to contain the River Ouse and empty the drainage dykes.
New interpretations of the effect of Magna Carta and other aspects
of the reign of King John. Magna Carta marked a watershed in the
relations between monarch and subject and has long been the subject
of constitutional and political historical writing. This volume has
a different focus: what was the social, economic, legal, and
religious background to the Charter - what was England like between
1199 and 1215? And, no less important, how was King John perceived
by those who actually knew him? Studies here analyse earlier
Angevin rulers and theeffect of their reigns on John's England, the
causes and results of the increasing baronial fear of the king, the
"managerial revolution" of the English church, and the effect of
the ius commune on English common law; theyalso explore the
burgeoning economy of the early thirteenth century and its effect
on English towns, the background to discontent over the royal
forests which eventually led to the Charter of the Forest, the
effect of Magna Cartaon widows and property, and the course of
criminal justice before 1215. The volume ends with the first
critical edition of an open letter from King John explaining his
position in the matter of William de Briouze. Contributors: James
A. Brundage, David Crook, David Crouch, John Gillingham, Barbara A.
Hanawalt, John Hudson, Janet S. Loengard, James Masschaele, R. V.
Turner.
Leisure and Tourism Geographies considers leisure/tourism as an encounter an encounter that exists between people, people and space, people as socialised and embodied subjects, expectations, experience and desire. The contributors explore diverse aspects of leisure and tourism, ranging from the methodologies behind leisure practices to detailed case studies which include Disneyland Paris; tourism in sacred landscapes; leisure practices in cyberspace; leisure and yachting; consuming pleasures; the use of recreational/holiday cottages; National Parks; and local parks and gardens. Presenting an exciting mix of attitudes and ideas concerning leisure and tourism, this book documents a lively debate, placing geography at its centre.
The official records of England are the focus of this volume -
their origin, their use, and what they reveal. The major theme of
this volume is the records of the Anglo-Norman realm, and how they
are used separately and in combination to construct the history of
England and Normandy. The essays cover all types of written source
material,including private charters and the official records of the
chancery and Exchequer, chronicles, and personal sources such as
letters, while some 100 previously unpublished documents are
included in a series of appendices. There arestudies here of
particular Anglo-Normans, including a great aristocrat and a
seneschal of Normandy; of records relating to Normandy surviving in
England; of the Norman and English Exchequers, between them the
financial mainstay of the king/dukes; of the controversial origins
of the English Chancery records; and of Rosamund Clifford, the
King's mistress. CONTRIBUTORS: NICHOLAS VINCENT, DAVID CARPENTER,
DAVID CROOK, MARK HAGGER, DAVID CROUCH, MARIE LOVATT, DANIEL POWER.
Recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and
Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The latest
volume presents recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman,
Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Its ten papers includes articles on the origins of the Cistercian
order, the coronationof Mathilda of Flanders, the rebel Owain ap
Cadwgan, miracle stories and the anarchy of Stephen's reign,
miracles at Sempringham, family and inheritance in the twelfth
century, and contemporary views of secular clergy. Contributors:
CONSTANCE BERMAN, LAURA GATHAGAN, DAVID CROUCH, CLAIRE DE TRAFFORD,
K.L. MAUND, EDMUND KING, RICHARD SHERMAN, HUGH THOMAS, MARYLOU
RUUD, JOHN COTTS, RALPH TURNER.
Everyday life in early thirteenth-century England is revealed in
vivid detail in this riveting collection of correspondence of
people from all classes, from peasants and shopkeepers to bishops
and earls. The documents presented here include letters between
masters and servants, husbands and wives, neighbors and enemies,
and cover a wide range of topics: politics and war, going to fairs
and going to law, attending tournaments and stocking a game park,
borrowing cash and doing favors for friends, investigating adultery
and building a windmill. While letters by celebrated people have
long been known, the correspondence of ordinary people has not
survived and has generally been assumed never to have existed in
the first place. Martha Carlin and David Crouch, however, have
discovered numerous examples of such correspondence hiding in plain
sight. The letters can be found in manuscripts called
formularies-the collections of form letters and other model
documents that for centuries were used to teach the arts of
letter-writing and keeping accounts. The writing-masters and their
students who produced these books compiled examples of all the
kinds of correspondence that people of means, members of the
clergy, and those who handled their affairs might expect to
encounter in their business and personal lives. Tucked among the
sample letters from popes to bishops and from kings to sheriffs are
examples of a much more casual, ephemeral kind of correspondence.
These are the low-level letters that evidently were widely
exchanged, but were often discarded because they were not
considered to be of lasting importance. Two manuscripts, one in the
British Library and the other in the Bodleian Library, are
especially rich in such documents, and it is from these collections
that Carlin and Crouch have drawn the documents in this volume.
They are presented here in their first printed edition, both in the
original Latin and in English translation, each document splendidly
contextualized in an accompanying essay.
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