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Livestock and animal husbandry in early medieval England

Medievalists.net — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 17:47:23 +0000

Major themes in the zooarchaeological record regarding livestock and animal husbandry in England from the 5th to 11th Centuries AD are reviewed.

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Medieval Beekeeping

Medievalists.net — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 02:50:42 +0000

Beekeeping has been a practice going back to ancient times, and during the Middle Ages one could find many farms that kept beehives and collected honey. However, few medieval texts offer indepth information on how this was done. One

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Medieval Pest Control

Medievalists.net — Wed, 27 May 2015 16:35:22 +0000

Have a pest troubling you? In the Middle Ages, you could try these remedies to get rid of them - poisons, traps, or even writing a letter to them!

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Human-Bovine Plagues in the Early Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Thu, 21 May 2015 20:22:13 +0000

In other words, when spreading among cattle, a now-extinct morbillivirus episodically colonized and spread in human populations during the early Middle Ages.

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Study reveals size of livestock were at their lowest in Early Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Wed, 20 May 2015 13:14:43 +0000

A new study, covering the last 2000 years of livestock animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and goats, has revealed that in Spain these animals were at their smallest size during the 8th and 9th centuries.

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Environmental Crusading: The Teutonic Knight’s Impact After the Baltic Crusades

Medievalists.net — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:44:57 +0000

Environmental archaeologist and Professor of Archeology at Reading, Dr. Aleks Pluskowski, examined Malbork and several other sites across Eastern and Northern Europe in his recent paper, The Ecology of Crusading: The Environmental Impact of Holy War, Colonisation, and Religious Conversion in the Medieval Baltic. Pluskowski is keenly interested in the impact the Teutonic Knights and Christian colonisation had on the region. His ambitious 4 year project on the ecological changes in this area recently came to a close at the end of 2014.

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Medieval Horse Stable: The Results of Multi Proxy Interdisciplinary Research

Medievalists.net — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 01:05:19 +0000

A multi proxy approach was applied in the reconstruction of the architecture of Medieval horse stable architecture, the maintenance practices associated with that structure as well as horse alimentation at the beginning of 13th century in Central Europe.

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The imperial abbey of Ellwangen and its peasants: a study of the polyptych of 1337

Medievalists.net — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 22:44:08 +0000

This paper presents an analysis of Ellwangen Abbey’s polyptych of 1337, with a view to understanding better the nature of the south German rural economy in this period.

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A peasant is a peasant, is a peasant? : Medieval Maritime Peasant Lives

Medievalists.net — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:08:25 +0000

A peasant is a peasant, is a peasant...or is s/he? Was the life of a peasant who lived in the coastal regions of England the same as that of the peasant who made his livelihood toiling on the land for his local lord?

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Of sagas and sheep: Toward a historical anthropology of social change and production for market, subsistence and tribute in early Iceland

Medievalists.net — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 12:50:13 +0000

This dissertation deals with the formation of chiefdoms, communities, ecclesiastical institutions and state, and with production for market, subsistence and tribute in early Iceland in the context of climatic change and ecological succession.

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