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| Author | : Stephen Rippon |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
This book explores an industry that was of profound importance both in terms of the local economy and the history of mining nationally, but is long forgotten: the late medieval royal silver mines at Bere Ferrers in the Tamar Valley. The Bere Ferrers silver mines employed up to 400 men, mining on a scale and at depths not previously possible, and changed forever the way that mining was carried out in medieval Britain.
| Author | : Graeme J. White |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2012-09-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1441181474 |
The landscape of medieval England was the product of a multitude of hands. While the power to shape the landscape inevitably lay with the Crown, the nobility and the religious houses, this study also highlights the contribution of the peasantry in the layout of rural settlements and ridge-and-furrow field works, and the funding of parish churches by ordinary townsfolk. The importance of population trends is emphasised as a major factor in shaping the medieval landscape: the rising curve of the eleventh to thirteenth centuries imposing growing pressures on resources, and the devastating impact of the Black Death leading to radical decline in the fourteenth century. Opening with a broad-ranging analysis of political and economic trends in medieval England, the book progresses thematically to assess the impact of farming, rural settlement, towns, the Church, and fortification using many original case studies. The concluding chapter charts the end of the medieval landscape with the dissolution of the monasteries, the replacement of castles by country houses, the ongoing enclosure of fields, and the growth of towns.
| Author | : Petr Hrubý |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 335 |
| Release | : 2024-05-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004693661 |
In the 13th century, the monarchs of the Přemyslid dynasty, whose territory overlapped with that of the present-day Czech Republic, were increasingly affected by the dismal state of the Crown's finances. As a result, the Přemyslids initiated intensive silver exploitation, among other means to ensure income. This book's objective, based on interdisciplinary research, is therefore to describe and present the structure of mining and metallurgical areas in the kingdom of Bohemia, as well as to examine and identify how ore mining and metallurgy shaped and interacted with settlement organization and the medieval landscape.
| Author | : Stephen Rippon |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 423 |
| Release | : 2012-07-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199533784 |
This volume explores how the archaeologist or historian can understand variations in landscapes. Making use of a wide range of sources and techniques, including archaeological material, documentary sources, and maps, Rippon illustrates how local and regional variations in the 'historic landscape' can be understood.
| Author | : Michael Aston |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 2002-09-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 113474630X |
Most places in Britain have had a local history written about them. Up until this century these histories have addressed more parochial issues, such as the life of the manor, rather than explaining the features and changes in the landscape in a factual manner. Much of what is visible today in Britain's landscape is the result of a chain of social and natural processes, and can be interpreted through fieldwork as well as from old maps and documents. Michael Aston uses a wide range of source material to study the complex and dynamic history of the countryside, illustrating his points with aerial photographs, maps, plans and charts. He shows how to understand the surviving remains as well as offering his own explanations for how our landscape has evolved.
| Author | : Emilia Skrzypek |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2020-10-08 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1789208572 |
Exploring the social complexities of the Frieda River Project in Papua New Guinea, this book tells the story of local stakeholder strategies on the eve of industrial development, largely from the perspective of the Paiyamo – one of the project’s so-called ‘impact communities’. Engaging ideas of knowledge, belief and personhood, it explains how fifty years of encounters with exploration companies shaped the Paiyamo’s aspirations, made them revisit and re-examine their past, and develop new strategies to move towards a better, more prosperous future.
| Author | : Christopher M. Gerrard |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1105 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0198744714 |
This Handbook provides an overview of the archaeology of the later Middle Ages in Britain between AD 1066 and 1550. Chapters cover topics ranging from later medieval objects, human remains, archaeological science, standing buildings, and sites such as castles and monasteries, to the well-preserved relict landscapes which still survive.
| Author | : José Carlos Sánchez-Pardo |
| Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2020-07-02 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1789695422 |
By presenting case studies from across Eastern and Western Medieval Europe, this volume aims to open up a Europe-wide debate on the variety of relations and contexts between ecclesiastical buildings and their surrounding landscapes between the 5th and 15th centuries AD.
| Author | : Francis Pryor |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 754 |
| Release | : 2010-06-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 014194336X |
This is the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. From our suburban streets that still trace out the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded, from the ceremonial landscapes of Stonehenge to the spread of the railways - evidence of how man's effect on Britain is everywhere. In The Making of the British Landscape, eminent historian, archaeologist and farmer, Francis Pryor explains how to read these clues to understand the fascinating history of our land and of how people have lived on it throughout time. Covering both the urban and rural and packed with pictures, maps and drawings showing everything from how we can still pick out Bronze Age fields on Bodmin Moor to how the Industrial Revolution really changed our landscape, this book makes us look afresh at our surroundings and really see them for the first time.
| Author | : Leonard Cantor |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2021-12-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000368661 |
First published in 1982, The English Medieval Landscape was written to recreate and analyse the development of the major elements of the medieval landscape. Illustrated with maps and photographs, the book explores the nature of the English landscape between 1066 and 1485, from farms and chases to castles, monastic settlements, villages, roads, and more. The English Medieval Landscape will appeal to those with an interest in medieval history and British social history.
