[PDF] Rural Economy And Country Life In The Medieval West eBook

Author : Georges Duby
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 1998-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812216745

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"One of the most important, imaginative, solidly documented, well written books of medieval history that I have ever read. . . . It offers a unique combination of synthetic power and analytic perception, of bold judgment and Cartesian doubt, of hard economic facts and subtle psychological considerations."--

Author : Léopold Genicot
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 19,8 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :

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The book is also notable for Genicot's efforts to acquaint readers with the new resources available to historians of the medieval countryside - from fossilized pollens to databanks of medieval documents and terminology - and to introduce modern, non-English technical terminology. Genicot includes a concise bibliographical summary of the various positions, discussions and current knowledge in the field. Rural Communities in the Medieval West is an authoritative synthesis of the scholarly literature from continental Europe's foremost historian of the economy and society of the medieval countryside. Also includes information on aristocracy, cattle rearing, church, commons, community, crisis, custom, demography, economy, family, franchises, landed property, law, lord, money, nobility, parish prices, reclamations, rent, seigneurie, serfdom, settlement, town, vicar, villa, etc.

Author : Erik Thoen
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 14,78 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
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This volume describes the outlines of the 'state of the art' in the field of rural history for countries such as England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Northern France. The contributing authors, all outstanding specialists in the field, present an overview of the most important publications regarding the areas covered. They also point to the most important research topics as well as indicating the most important lacunae in the field of rural history during the last decades. The original texts of this book formed the basis of the international research group CORN, which studies the economic development of the Northern European countryside in a comparative way. The regional monographs are preceded by a short methodological introduction concerning the comparative methods used by this network as well as the possible pitfalls and problems.

Author : Prosper Boissonnade
Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 33,92 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Europe
ISBN :

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"TB1141."Translation of Le travail dans l'Europe chrétienne au moyen âge. Bibliography: p. 337-342.

Author : Isabel Alfonso Antón
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :

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This collection gathers a number of scholars to reflect on recent developments in medieval rural history in their respective countries. Each individual contribution surveys recent areas of research, significant results, as well as perspectives for the future. This is meant not only to provide a deeper insight into how medieval rural studies relate to current debates in the social sciences, but also to help understand the connections between specific national historiographic traditions and present-day research issues in their historical context. By comparing different European regions one can see more clearly the similarities and the differences and this is a truer means of constructing syntheses and for identifying fruitful future lines of research.

Author : Jamie Kreiner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0300255551

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An exploration of life in the early medieval West, using pigs as a lens to investigate agriculture, ecology, economy, and philosophy From North Africa to the British Isles, pigs were a crucial part of agriculture and culture in the early medieval period. Jamie Kreiner examines how this ubiquitous species was integrated into early medieval ecologies and transformed the way that people thought about the world around them. In this world, even the smallest things could have far‑reaching consequences. Kreiner tracks the interlocking relationships between pigs and humans by drawing on textual and visual evidence, bioarchaeology and settlement archaeology, and mammal biology. She shows how early medieval communities bent their own lives in order to accommodate these tricky animals—and how in the process they reconfigured their agrarian regimes, their fiscal policies, and their very identities. In the end, even the pig’s own identity was transformed: by the close of the early Middle Ages, it had become a riveting metaphor for Christianity itself.

Author : Miriam Müller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003194866

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"The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life brings together the latest research on peasantry in medieval Europe. The aim is to place peasants - as small-scale agricultural producers - firmly at the centre of this volume, as people with agency, immense skill, and resilience to shape their environments, cultures and societies. The volume examines the changes and evolutions within village societies across the medieval period, over a broad chronology and across a wide geography. Rural structures, families, and hierarchies are examined alongside tool use and trade, as well as the impact of external factors such as famine and the Black Death. The contributions offer insights into multidisciplinary research, incorporating archaeological as well as landscape studies alongside traditional historical documentary approaches across widely differing local and regional contexts across medieval Europe. This book will be an essential reference for scholars and students of medieval history, as well those interested in rural, cultural and social history"--