Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 55, Part 7, 1965)
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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
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Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781422376102
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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carl J. Dahlman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1980-05-15
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780521228817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Professor Dahlman applies modern economic methodology to an old historical problem. He demonstrates how the quaint institutions of the ancient English open field system of agriculture can be understood as an intelligent and rational adaptation to a particular problem of production and to certain historical circumstances. He argues that the two major characteristics of this type of agriculture - scattered strips owned by individual peasants and extensive areas of common land - both fulfilled vital economic functions. This overturns the traditional view of the open field system as inefficient and rigidly bound by tradition, and throws light on the behaviour of medeival peasants. Professor Dahlman also offers some generalisations about the economic theory of institutions and institutional change, refuting the idea that an economic analysis of institutions must necessarily be deterministic. As a challenge to some of the fundamental criticisms of the application of economic theory to historical problems, the book will be of great interest to agrarian historians and to economic historians generally, as well as to specialists in the medieval period.
Author: Warren Ortman Ault
Publisher: Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 114
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frederic Seebohm
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 548
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Britnell
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Published: 2009-04
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1907396446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith special emphasis on the period following the Black Death, this new collection of essays explores agriculture and rural society during the late Middle Ages. Combining a broad perspective on agrarian problems--such as depopulation and social conflict--with illustrative material from detailed local and regional research, this compilation demonstrates how these general problems were solved within specific contexts. The contributors supply detailed studies relating to the use of the land, the movement of prices, the distribution of property, the organization of trade, and the cohesion of village society, among other issues. New research on regional development in medieval England and other European countries is also discussed.
Author: Paul Vinogradoff
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 492
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gabriel Byng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-12-14
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1107157099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first systematic study of the financing and management of parish church construction in England in the Middle Ages.
Author: Susan Oosthuizen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-05-09
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1472509471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost people believe that traditional landscapes did not survive the collapse of Roman Britain, and that medieval open fields and commons originated in Anglo-Saxon innovations unsullied by the past. The argument presented here tests that belief by contrasting the form and management of early medieval fields and pastures with those of the prehistoric and Roman landscapes they are supposed to have superseded. The comparison reveals unexpected continuities in the layout and management of arable and pasture from the fourth millennium BC to the Norman Conquest. The results suggest a new paradigm: the collective organisation of agricultural resources originated many centuries, perhaps millennia, before Germanic migrants reached Britain. In many places, medieval open fields and common rights over pasture preserved long-standing traditions for organising community assets. In central, southern England, a negotiated compromise between early medieval lords eager to introduce new managerial structures and communities as keen to retain their customary traditions of landscape organisation underpinned the emergence of nucleated settlements and distinctive, highly-regulated open fields.
Author: Michael Wolfe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-16
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1351895729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 10 essays here are the result of a conference devoted to the study of medieval technology in April 1995. Taken together, they aim to help dispel the common misconception that medieval people somehow had to toil in a world bereft of technical innovation and ingenuity. The authors of the papers, all experts in their fields, show the Middle Ages not only to be a time of considerable technological development, but also the ways in which the technologies of building construction, manufacture and metallurgy were shaped by broader forces of culture, social identity, political ambition and the local environment.
Author: Frederic Seebohm
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 532
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