Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West

Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West
Author: Georges Duby
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 634
Release: 1998-01-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780812216745

"One of the most important, imaginative, solidly documented, well written books of medieval history that I have ever read. . . . It offers a unique combination of synthetic power and analytic perception, of bold judgment and Cartesian doubt, of hard economic facts and subtle psychological considerations."--

Early Medieval Settlements

Early Medieval Settlements
Author: Helena Hamerow
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2004
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0199273189

This is an overview and synthesis of the extensive and rapidly growing body of archaeological evidence for early medieval buildings, settlements, farming, craft production, and trade among the rural communities of north-west Europe.

The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life

The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life
Author: Miriam Müller
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 586
Release: 2021-10-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000450732

The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life brings together the latest research on peasantry in medieval Europe. The aim is to place peasants – as small-scale agricultural producers – firmly at the centre of this volume, as people with agency, immense skill and resilience to shape their environments, cultures and societies. This volume examines the changes and evolutions within village societies across the medieval period, over a broad chronology and across a wide geography. Rural structures, families and hierarchies are examined alongside tool use and trade, as well as the impact of external factors such as famine and the Black Death. The contributions offer insights into multidisciplinary research, incorporating archaeological as well as landscape studies alongside traditional historical documentary approaches across widely differing local and regional contexts across medieval Europe. This book will be an essential reference for scholars and students of medieval history, as well those interested in rural, cultural and social history.

Settlement Change Across Medieval Europe

Settlement Change Across Medieval Europe
Author: Niall Brady
Publisher: Ruralia
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2019-09-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789088908064

Innovations, transmissions and transformations had profound spatial, economic and social impacts on the environments, landscapes and habitats evident at micro- and macro-levels. This volume explores how these changes affected how land was worked, how it was organized, and the nature of buildings and rural complexes.

Neighbours and strangers

Neighbours and strangers
Author: Bernhard Zeller
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2020-03-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1526139839

This book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700–1050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constituted units of social organisation. It focuses on the interactions, interconnections and networks of people who lived side by side – neighbours. Drawing evidence from most of the current western European countries, the book plots and interrogates the very different practices of this wide range of regions in a systematically comparative framework. It considers the variety of local responses to the supra-local agents of landlords and rulers and the impact, such as it was, of those agents on the small-scale residential group. It also assesses the impact on local societies of the values, instructions and demands of the wider literate world of Christianity, as delivered by local priests.

Medieval Rural Settlement

Medieval Rural Settlement
Author: Hajnalka Herold
Publisher: Windgather Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-02-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781911188674

Medieval Rural Settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600 is a major assessment and review of the origins, forms and evolutions of medieval rural settlement in Britain and Ireland across the period c. AD 800-1600. It offers a comprehensive analysis of early to late medieval settlement, land use, economics and population, bringing together evidence drawn from archaeological excavations and surveys, historical geographical analysis and documentary and place-name study. It is intended to be the flagship publication of the Medieval Settlement Research Group (MSRG) which has a long and distinguished history of exploring, debating and promoting research and offers systematic appraisal of 60 years' work across the whole field of medieval settlement, designed to inspire the next generation of researchers. Part I comprises a set of papers exploring the history of medieval rural settlement research in Britain and Ireland, the evolving methodologies, the roots of the medieval landscape and the place of power in these settlements and landscapes. Part II presents an extensive series of regional and national reviews detailing contexts, histories of study, forms, evolutions and future research needs. These extensive contributions also include "feature boxes" on key themes, sites to visit and main excavations in the study areas discussed. A final section provides guidance on how to research and study medieval rural sites - from laptop to test-pit. Extensively illustrated in colour and black and white, and written by expert contributors, the volume includes a comprehensive, integrated bibliography and an index. Medieval Rural Settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600 will be essential reading for everyone researching and interested in medieval settlements and the medieval rural landscape.

The Rise of Western Christendom

The Rise of Western Christendom
Author: Peter Brown
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 741
Release: 2012-12-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1118338847

This tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative text on Christianity's first thousand years of history features a new preface, additional color images, and an updated bibliography. The essential general survey of medieval European Christendom, Brown's vivid prose charts the compelling and tumultuous rise of an institution that came to wield enormous religious and secular power. Clear and vivid history of Christianity's rise and its pivotal role in the making of Europe Written by the celebrated Princeton scholar who originated of the field of study known as 'late antiquity' Includes a fully updated bibliography and index

Village Community and Conflict in Late Medieval Drenthe

Village Community and Conflict in Late Medieval Drenthe
Author: Peter Hoppenbrouwers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Drenthe (Netherlands)
ISBN: 9782503575391

Village communities were the heart of the medieval countryside. But how did they operate? This book seeks to find some answers to that question by focusing on late medieval Drenthe, a region situated in a remote corner of the Holy Roman Empire and part of the prince-bishopric of Utrecht. Drenthe was an overwhelmingly localized, rural world. It had no cities, and consisted entirely of small villages. The social and economic importance of traditionally privileged sections of medieval society (clergy and nobility) was limited; free peasant landowners were the dominant social class. Based on a careful reading of normative sources (Land charters) and thousands of short verdicts given by the so-called 'Etstoel' or high court of justice in Drenthe, this book focuses on three types of conflict: conflicts between villages, feud-like violence, and litigations about property. These three types coincide with three levels of involvement: that of village communities as a whole, that of kin groups, and that of households. The resulting, comprehensive analysis provides a rigorous interrogation of generalized notions of the pre-industrial rural world, offering a snapshot of a typical peasant society in late medieval Europe.

Vandals to Visigoths

Vandals to Visigoths
Author: Karen Eva Carr
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780472108916

Sheds light on settlement patterns in early medieval Spain and demonstrates the local effect of the collapse of Roman Government

Social complexity in early medieval rural communities

Social complexity in early medieval rural communities
Author: Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2016-12-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1784915092

This book presents an overview of the results of the research project DESPAMED funded by the Spanish Minister of Economy and Competitiveness. The aim of the book is to discuss the theoretical challenges posed by the study of social inequality and social complexity in early medieval peasant communities in North-western Iberia.