A Comprehensive History of Beer Brewing
Brewing has been a human activity ever since the beginning of urbanization and civilization in the Neolithic period
Querns, Millstones, and Trade in Roman and Anglo-Saxon Britain
Querns, Millstones, and Trade in Roman and Anglo-Saxon Britain By Jon Addison Classlcal Studies Honours Thesis, University of Adelaide, 1995 Introduction: Using millstones…
A link with the external world: The stockfish trade in 14th-15th century Iceland
Iceland was settled mainly by Norwegian Vikings in the period c.870-c.930. Towards the end of this period, settlers established the law and the assembly system all over the island.
The Ecology of Crusading project: new research on medieval Baltic landscapes
The Ecology of Crusading project is a new programme of research investigating the environmental impact of the Baltic Crusades.
The Politics of Wet System Building: Balancing Interests in Dutch Water Management from the Middle Ages to the Present
The Politics of Wet System Building: Balancing Interests in Dutch Water Management from the Middle Ages to the Present By Cornelis Disco and…
The Cucurbitaceae and Solanaceae illustrated in medieval manuscripts known as the Tacuinum Sanitatis
The Cucurbitaceae and Solanaceae illustrated in medieval manuscripts known as the Tacuinum Sanitatis By Harry S. Paris1, Marie-Christine Daunay and Jules Janick Annals…
The Peasant Diet: Image and Reality
There is no single image of the peasant as food consumer just as there is no single ‘reality’ of peasant standards of living in the Middle Ages. The peasants’ obsession with food in literature coincides with an equally popular upper-class assumption that what is actually eaten by the peasants is unpleasant to persons of breeding.
The Medieval Silver-Lead Miner: A Preliminary Study
The Medieval Silver-Lead Miner: A Preliminary Study By Peter Claughton Bulletin of the Peak District Mines Historical Society, Vol.12:2 (1993) Abstract: This paper…
Medieval Farming and Flooding in the Brede Valley
Medieval Farming and Flooding in the Brede Valley By Mark Gardiner Romney Marsh: the Debatable Ground, ed. Jill Eddison, OUCA Monograph 41 (1995)…
Early Catalan Agricultural Writing and the Libre o regla o ensanyament de plantar o senbrar vinyes e arbres…
Early Catalan Agricultural Writing and the Libre o regla o ensanyament de plantar o senbrar vinyes e arbres… By Thomas M. Capuano Published…
The origin, assortments and transport of Baltic timber
The first cases of long distance timber transportation in northern Europe, observed using dendrochronology, are from Dorestad in the Netherlands and Wolin in Poland.
Family, economy and consumption in the medieval English village, c. 1300
Family, economy and consumption in the medieval English village, c. 1300 Schofield, Phillipp (Aberystwyth University) Patterns of Consumption and Standards of Living in the…
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…
Manufacturing Techniques of Belt and Harness Fittings of the 10th Century AD
The present study includes approximately 900 items of belt and horse harness fittings. They have been found on the Upper Dnieper, Smolensk region, the site of the Gnezdovo settlement and cemetery dating from the end of 9th to the beginning of 11th century.
Source materials for fishing in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Instead of searching for ancient parallels to the fishery statistics, tithe-books and tax records of the early modern periods – a waste of time, since such records are not preserved and probably never existed – we should look at all possible approaches to the problem and all possible sources.
Manorial court roll inventories as evidence for English peasant consumption and living standards, c.1270-c.1420
This paper looks at the strengths and weaknesses of the inventories as a historical source. It also looks at the evidence they give on peasant possession of household consumer goods.
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…
Water and wetlands in medieval estate management: Glastonbury Abbey, Meare and the Somerset Levels in South West England
Water and wetlands in medieval estate management: Glastonbury Abbey, Meare and the Somerset Levels in South West England By Stephen Rippon Ruralia, Vol.5…
Reclamation and regional economies of medieval marshland in Britain
Reclamation and regional economies of medieval marshland in Britain By Stephen Rippon Recent Developments in Wetland Research, edited by B. Raftery and J.…
Real and imagined feudalism in highland Georgia
Real and imagined feudalism in highland Georgia By Kevin Tuite Amirani, Vol.7 (2002) Introduction: During the 8th-9th centuries, a system of land tenure…
Food and the Maintenance of Social Boundaries in Medieval England
In this chapter, both zooarchaeological and historical evidence are used to explore variation in patterns of consumption among different sectors of medieval English society (ca. A.D. 1066-1520).
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.
“Rural Towns” and “In-Between” or “Third” Spaces. Settlement Patterns in Byzantine Epirus (7th-11th c.) from an interdisciplinary approach
“Rural Towns” and “In-Between” or “Third” Spaces. Settlement Patterns in Byzantine Epirus (7th-11th c.) from an interdisciplinary approach By Myrto Veikou Archaeologia Medievale,…
The Medieval English Forest
The Medieval English Forest By Jean R. Birrell Journal of Forest History, Vol.24:2 (1980) Introduction: England was still a well-wooded country in the…
The Participation of Women in the Fourteenth-Century Manor Court of Sutton-in-the-Isle
The first part of this article introduces the manorial court rolls of Sutton-in-the-Isle and explains the methodology utilised to create a database of the business of the Sutton court.