English Villagers of the Thirteenth Century
Author: George Caspar Homans
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Published: 1941
Total Pages: 500
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New Historical Geography of England
Author: Henry Clifford Darby
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1973-12-06
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521291446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalytic survey of the changing face of England, countryside and town, from the coming of the Anglo-Saxons to 1914.
Life in a Medieval Village
Author: Frances Gies
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2010-09-07
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0062016687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe reissue of Joseph and Frances Gies’s classic bestseller on life in medieval villages. This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work and at play in the Middle Ages. Focusing on the village of Elton, in the English East Midlands, the Gieses detail the agricultural advances that made communal living possible, explain what domestic life was like for serf and lord alike, and describe the central role of the church in maintaining social harmony. Though the main focus is on Elton, c. 1300, the Gieses supply enlightening historical context on the origin, development, and decline of the European village, itself an invention of the Middle Ages. Meticulously researched, Life in a Medieval Village is a remarkable account that illustrates the captivating world of the Middle Ages and demonstrates what it was like to live during a fascinating—and often misunderstood—era.
Interpreting the English Village
Author: Mick Aston
Publisher: Windgather Press
Published: 2013-02-07
Total Pages: 657
ISBN-13: 1909686069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn original and approachable account of how archaeology can tell the story of the English village. Shapwick lies in the middle of Somerset, next to the important monastic centre of Glastonbury: the abbey owned the manor for 800 years from the 8th to the 16th century and its abbots and officials had a great influence on the lives of the peasants who lived there. It is possible that abbot Dunstan, one of the great reformers of tenth century monasticism directed the planning of the village. The Shapwick Project examined the development and history of an English parish and village over a ten thousand-year period. This was a truly multi-disciplinary project. Not only were a battery of archaeological and historical techniques explored - such as field walking, test-pitting, archaeological excavation, aerial reconnaissance, documentary research and cartographic analysis - but numerous other techniques such as building analysis, dendrochronological dating and soil analysis were undertaken on a large scale. The result is a fascinating study about how the community lived and prospered in Shapwick. In addition we learn how a group of enthusiastic and dedicated scholars unravelled this story. As such there is much here to inspire and enthuse others who might want to embark on a landscape study of a parish or village area. Seven of the ten chapters begin with a fictional vignette to bring the story of the village to life. Text-boxes elucidate re-occurring themes and techniques. Extensively illustrated in colour including 100 full page images.
Middle English Dictionary
Author: Robert E. Lewis
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780472013104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe final installment of the most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
Manors and Maps in Rural England, from the Tenth Century to the Seventeenth
Author: P.D.A. Harvey
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-05-31
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1000949788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKP.D.A. Harvey is a historian of medieval rural England with a wide interest in the history of cartography; this collection of his essays brings together both these strands. It first looks at the English countryside from the 10th century to the 15th, investigating problems in particular documents, in the village community and in underlying long-term changes. How landlords drew profits from their property in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, how and why there followed changes in the way landed estates were run and in the written records they produced, what new light their personal seals can throw on medieval peasants, are all among the topics discussed, while the local management of large estates and the development of the peasant land market are themes that recur throughout. There follow essays on the way maps were brought into the management of landed estates in the 16th and 17th centuries, starting with the introduction of consistent scale into mapping, a new concept crucially important in the general history of topographical maps. The collection closes by looking at some of the traps that both documents and maps set for the historian of the English countryside.
The Human Group
Author: George Caspar Homans
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-29
Total Pages: 675
ISBN-13: 1351481355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge C. Homans's classic volume The Human Group was among the first to study the small group as a microcosm of society. It introduced a method of analysis and a set of influential theories that cut across areas of specialization on the personality, community, and industry.The study of even the smallest groups is extremely complex, with the simplest associations involving an abundance of actions, relationships, emotions, motives, ideas, and beliefs. Homans concentrates on certain activities and processes he observes in five carefully selected and differentiated case studies and from them draws common patterns and ideas that serve as the bases of testable propositions.He divides his cases into static and dynamic groups. In all five cases, Homans selects comparable phenomena for analysis with a contextually different emphasis and elaboration each time. His results demonstrate that, different as these groups are, their behavior reveals fundamental similarities and social uniformities. A ground-breaking and authoritative work when it was first published in 1950, The Human Group continues to Inform and invigorate the study of small groups in sociology, psychology, management, and organizations.
Field Systems and Farming Systems in Late Medieval England
Author: Bruce M.S. Campbell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-05-31
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 1000938387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe later Middle Ages was an overwhelmingly rural world, with probably three out of four households reliant upon farming for a living. Yet conventional accounts of the period rarely do justice to the variety of ways in which the land was managed and worked. The thirteen essays collected in this volume draw upon the abundant documentary evidence of the period to explore that diversity. In the process they engage with the issue of classification - without which effective generalisation is impossible - and offer a series of solutions to that particularly thorny methodological challenge. Only through systematic and objective classification is it possible to differentiate between and map different field systems, husbandry types, and land-use categories. That, in turn, makes it possible to consider and evaluate the relative roles of soils and topography, institutional structures, and commercialised market demand in shaping farm enterprise both during the period of mounting population before the Black Death and the long era of demographic decline that followed it. What emerges is an agrarian world more commercialised, differentiated, and complex than is usually appreciated, whose institutional and agronomic contours shaped the course of agricultural development for centuries to come.
Growing Old in the Middle Ages
Author: Shulamith Shahar
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780415333603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study draws a comprehensive picture of medieval old age in western Europe, combining primary sources and secondary litrature to produce a broad cultural history.
The Liber Gersumarum of Ramsey Abbey
Author: Edwin Brezette DeWindt
Publisher: PIMS
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780888443564
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