7th century plough discovery redraws map of rural England by 400 years
A unique discovery made by the University of Reading could mean that the shape of our countryside was forged 400 years earlier than…
Thirteenth century Farm Economies in North Wales
Thirteenth century Farm Economies in North Wales Agricultural History Review, Vol.16.1 (1968) Abstract Thomas, Colin Recent research has tended to refine the traditional…
Ceramics in the Medieval Garden
Ceramics in the medieval garden Moorehouse, S. A. “Ceramics in the Medieval Garden” Garden Archaeology ed. Brown, A. E. Council for British Archaeology,…
Ibn Wahshiyya and Magic
Ibn Wahshiyya and Magic Anaquel de Estudios Árabes X (1999) HÁMEEM-ANTTILA, JAAKKO Magic has always had a role to play in Islamie society’. Its…
Mediaeval cereal yields in Catalonia and England: an empirical challenge
Mediaeval cereal yields in Catalonia and England: an empirical challenge By Peter J. Reynolds Acta historica et archaeologica mediaevalia, No.18 (1997) Introduction: The…
Implements and Utensils in Gerefa and the Organization of Seigneurial Farmsteads in the High Middle Ages
Implements and Utensils in Gerefa and the Organization of Seigneurial Farmsteads in the High Middle Ages Gardiner, Mark Medieval Archaeology, Vol.50 (2006) Abstract The text known…
The Wool Trade In English Medieval History
In the middle ages cloth was produced for local consumption almost everywhere, and export trade too was fed from a large number of countries; from England, from the Languedoc and from many of the Italian towns.
The Black Death and the origins of the ‘Great Divergence’ across Europe, 1300–1600
One important recent theme emerging from the literature on early modern Europe is that some of the key structural and institutional changes that are responsible for the increases in incomes may have taken place rather early, in the late medieval period or in the era of the Black Death.
Interpreting the Viking Age to Medieval Period Transition in Norse Orkney through Cultural Soil and Sediment Analyses
Interpreting the Viking Age to Medieval Period Transition in Norse Orkney through Cultural Soil and Sediment Analyses By Ian A. Simpson, James H.…
Sheep and goats in Norse paganism
At Odin’s Valhalla the well-known goat Heidrun eats leaves, and clear mead fl ows from her udder into the beakers of the warriors.
Break a Leg: Animal Health and Welfare in Medieval, Emden, Germany
The presented study investigates the pathologically changed animal bones from medieval Emden, Germany.
Compulsory Service in Late Medieval England
Compulsory Service in Late Medieval England By Judith M. Bennett Past and Present, Vol. 209:1 (2010) Introduction: In June 1349, as the plague…
Multi-Use Management of the Medieval Anglo-Norman Forest
Multi-Use Management of the Medieval Anglo-Norman Forest Wilson, Dolores Journal of the Oxford University History Society, Issue 2 (Trinity 2004) Abstract Modern public…
The Economics of Exhaustion, the Postan Thesis, and the Agricultural Revolution
The Economics of Exhaustion, the Postan Thesis, and the Agricultural Revolution By Gregory Clark The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 52, No. 1. (1992)…
A Comparison of Agricultural Production on the Estates of King, Church and Laity in 1086
A Comparison of Agricultural Production on the Estates of King, Church and Laity in 1086 By John McDonald Flinders Business School Research Paper…
Debating Lordly Landscapes: the Deer Park of Earlspark Loughrea, Co. Galway
This paper explored the Medieval Peer Park and its social meaning in medieval Ireland and England.
Employment on a Northern English Farm, 1370-1409
Professor Britnell spoke about the manorial accounts from a small farm in Durham called Houghall, which belonged to Durham Priory.
Women and Cows – Ownership and Work in Medieval Sweden
In this paper, I will be looking at butter making as a woman’s occupation.
Chicken Husbandry in Late-Medieval Eastern England: c. 1250-1400
Chicken Husbandry in Late-Medieval Eastern England: c. 1250-1400 By Philip Slavin Anthropozoologica, Vol. 44:2 (2009) Abstract: The present article studies the place of…
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?
Livestock in the Brehon Laws
The content of Brehon Law is as varied as the life of the people, and ranges from law of the person to the regulation of almost trivial details of farming.
The Animal Remains found at Kirkstall Abbey
The Animal Remains found at Kirkstall Abbey Ryder, M. L Agricultural History Review,Volume 7 part 1 (1959) Abstract The use of archaeology as…
The Common Fields of the Coastlands of Gwent
The Common Fields of the Coastlands of Gwent Sylvester, Dorothy Agricultural History Review, Volume 6 part 1 (1958) Abstract The development of agriculture…
A Review of Balks as Strip Boundaries in the Open Fields
A Review of Balks as Strip Boundaries in the Open Fields Beecham, H.A Agricultural History Review, Volume 4 part 1 (1956) Abstract It…