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Peasant Perceptions of Landscape marks a change in the discipline
of landscape history, as well as making a major contribution to the
history of everyday life. Until now, there has been no sustained
analysis of how ordinary medieval and early modern people
experienced and perceived their material environment and
constructed their identities in relation to the places where they
lived. This volume provides exactly such an analysis by examining
peasant perceptions in one geographical area over the long period
from AD 500 to 1650. The study takes as its focus Ewelme hundred, a
well-documented and archaeologically-rich area of lowland vale and
hilly Chiltern wood-pasture comprising fourteen ancient parishes.
The analysis draws on a range of sources including legal
depositions and thousands of field-names and bynames preserved in
largely unpublished deeds and manorial documents. Archaeology makes
a major contribution, particularly for understanding the period
before 900, but more generally in reconstructing the fabric of
villages and the framework for inhabitants' spatial practices and
experiences. In its focus on the way inhabitants interacted with
the landscape in which they worked, prayed, and socialised, Peasant
Perceptions of Landscape supplies a new history of the lives and
attitudes of the bulk of the rural population who so seldom make
their mark in traditional landscape analysis or documentary
history.
This book examines archaeological and historical evidence for the
socio-economic organization of the kingdom of East Kent, England,
as a territorial and social system during the Early to Middle
Anglo-Saxon period (AD 400-900). Explicit archaeological and
theoretical frameworks are considered to propose a hierarchical
model of the spatial organization of communities as a way of
providing a micro-economic casestudy of state formation.
UK remastered reissue of the Irish guitarist's 1990 album includes
five bonus tracks, 'The Stumble', 'Left Me With The Blues',
'Further On Up The Road', 'Mean Cruel Woman' & 'The Sky Is
Crying'. Virgin. 2003.
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