Changing the Face of Landscape: Reflections on Deserted Medieval Villages, the Founding of Cities and Early Industrialization in the German Low Mountain Ranges
Changing the Face of Landscape: Reflections on Deserted Medieval Villages, the Founding of Cities and Early Industrialization in the German Low Mountain Ranges…
Medieval Microcredit? Pledging and Rural Credit in England During the Middle Ages
How did credit markets emerged in medieval England? This is the puzzle addressed in this paper.
Lordship and Environmental Change in Central Highland Scotland c.1300–c.1400
Lordship and Environmental Change in Central Highland Scotland c.1300–c.1400 By Richard Oram and W. Paul Adderley Journal of the North Atlantic, Vol.1 (2008)…
Conflict in the Landscape: The Enclosure Movement in England, 1220-1349
Conflict in the Landscape: The Enclosure Movement in England, 1220-1349 By Christopher Dyer Landscape History, Vol.29 (2007) Abstract: Between 1220 and 1349 groups…
Statute and Local Custom: Village Byelaws and the Governance of Common Land in Medieval and Early-modern England
Statute and Local Custom: Village Byelaws and the Governance of Common Land in Medieval and Early-modern England By Angus Winchester Confernce Paper (2008)…
Pigs, Presses and Pastoralism: Farming In the Fifth to Sixth Centuries AD
In the light of archaeological and related discoveries of the past decades, what can be said about rural settlement and production in this key period? Were there any major changes to farming practices, and if so, what were they?
Cistercian Sheep, Farming and Wool-Sales in the Thirteenth Century
The list of wool-producing monasteries drawn up by Francesco Balducci Pegolotti, a member of the merchant house of Bardi, contains a larger proportion of Cistercian houses (about 85 per cent) than of any other order.
The Content and Sources of English Agrarian History before 1500
The Content and Sources of English Agrarian History before 1500 Hilton, R.H. Agricultural History Review, Volume 3, No. 1 (1955) Abstract The picture…
An Early Reference to the Welsh Cattle Trade
An Early Reference to the Welsh Cattle Trade Finberg, H. P. R. Agricultural History Review, Volume 2 (1954) Abstract How old is the…
The Purpose of Domesday Book: a Quandary
The Purpose of Domesday Book: a Quandary Kapelle, William Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 9 (1992) Abstract In 1086 the Normans made a…
The Social Structure of the Byzantine Countryside in the First Half of the Xth Century
The Social Structure of the Byzantine Countryside in the First Half of the Xth Century By Nikos Oikonomides BYZANTINA SYMMEIKTA Vol.10 (1996) Introduction: The Xth…
Feeding the Brethren: Grain Provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory, c. 1280-1370
Feeding the Brethren: Grain Provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory, c. 1280-1370 By Philip Slavin PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 2008 Abstract: The present dissertation…
Multi-Use Management of the Medieval Anglo-Norman Forest
Despite the commonly held view that medieval man consumed his resources without control, the Middle Ages were in fact a time of balancing the multiple uses of the forest to obtain the highest feasible short and long-term economic benefit.
Manorial organisation in early thirteenth-century Tipperary
Manorial organisation in early thirteenth-century Tipperary By Mark Hennessy Irish Geography, Vo.l 29:2 (1996) Abstract: Research in Ireland on medieval manors has tended to focus…
Forests as Exercises in Medieval Power
It has been estimated by historian and professor Charles R. Young that during the thirteenth century one quarter of the land in England was designated as royal forest.
Labor Use and Landlord Control: Sharecropping and Household Structure in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany
Labor Use and Landlord Control: Sharecropping and Household Structure in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany By Rebecca Jean Emigh The Journal of Historical Sociology, Vol.11:1 (1998)…
A medieval woodland manor: Hanley Castle, Worcestershire
A medieval woodland manor: Hanley Castle, Worcestershire By James Patrick Toomey Ph.D. thesis, University of Birmingham (1997) Abstract: A woodland manor in the…
Tilling the Hateful Earth: Agricultural Production and Trade in the Late Antique East
Tilling the Hateful Earth: Agricultural Production and Trade in the Late Antique East By Michael Decker Oxford University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-19-956528-3 This…
‘Profane’ Activity Amongst Pious Villagers: In pursuit of identity amongst smelting communities in Byzantine Serres and Drama, Macedonia
‘Profane’ Activity Amongst Pious Villagers: In pursuit of identity amongst smelting communities in Byzantine Serres and Drama, Macedonia By Nerantzis Nerantzis Assemblage: The…
Land Administration in Medieval Japan: Ito no shô in Chikuzen Province, 1131–1336
Land Administration in Medieval Japan: Ito no shô in Chikuzen Province, 1131–1336 By Judith Fröhlich History: The Journal of the Historical Association, Vol.…
Irrigation and Hydraulic Technology in Islamic Spain: Methodological Considerations
Irrigation and Hydraulic Technology in Islamic Spain: Methodological Considerations By Thomas F. Glick Journal for the History of Arabic Science, Vol.11 (1997) Synopsis: Examines the…
Templars (and Hospitallers) in Essex
Cressing Temple, about 10 miles northeast of Chelmsford in Essex, is thought to be the earliest settlement of the Knights Templar in England.
Changing Layers of Jurisdiction and the Reshaping of Icelandic Society c. 1220-1350
Changing Layers of Jurisdiction and the Reshaping of Icelandic Society c. 1220-1350 By Jón Viðar Sigurðsson Communities in European History: Representations, Jurisdictions, Conflicts, edited…
Agricultural Productivity in Eastern Europe and Western Asia in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Agricultural Productivity in Eastern Europe and Western Asia in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries By Metin Coşgel Paper given at Towards a Global…
Industrial Milling in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: A Survey of the Evidence for an Industrial Revolution in Medieval Europe
Examines whether the evidence for waterpowered industry cited by advocates of the thesis of a medieval industrial revolution is sufficiently robust to support the claims that have been made for it.