Decision Making In Medieval Agriculture

Author : David Stone
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191514357

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Decision-Making in Medieval Agriculture by David Stone Pdf

This fascinating and important book uses a wealth of contemporary sources to reconstruct the mental world of medieval farmers and, by doing so, argues that these key figures in the Middle Ages have been unfairly stereotyped. David Stone overturns the traditional view of medieval countrymen as economically backward and instead reveals that agricultural decision-making was as rational in the fouteenth century as in modern times. Investigating agricultural mentalities first at a local level and then for England as a whole, Dr Stone argues that human action shaped the course of the rural economy to a much greater extent than has hitherto been appreciated, and challenges the commonly held view that the medieval period was dominated by ecological and economic crises. Focusing in particular on responses to commercial forces and the adoption of agricultural technology, this book has significant implications for our understanding of agricultural development throughout the last thousand years.

Author : Richard Britnell,Ben Dodds
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781907396441

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Agriculture and Rural Society After the Black Death by Richard Britnell,Ben Dodds Pdf

With 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 : M. M. Postan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521088461

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Essays on Medieval Agriculture and General Problems of the Medieval Economy by M. M. Postan Pdf

Includes The economic foundations of medieval society, The rise of a money economy, The chronology of labour services and The charters of the villeins.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004617834

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Medieval Farming and Technology by Anonim Pdf

This is the first of three planned volumes which deal with the techniques and technology of agriculture in Europe in the period from 600 A.D. down to the 17th century. The focus of this first volume is Scandinavia, the British Isles, Northern Germany, the Low Countries and Northern France. The volume discusses methodological approaches and their limitations, the development of medieval agriculture in terms of the transmission of technological ideas, improvements in productivity, regional variations, social responses to agricultural technology, and those common trends that unite the Northwest European region. The volume integrates material derived from the great advances made in medieval archaeology and the historical study of landscapes during the past 30 years and has a supranational character. It will be of interest to all those working on the social, economic and political history of Northwest Europe in the medieval and early modern periods as well as to those undertaking research in the specific field of the history of technology.

Author : Emery N. Castle,Manning Henry Becker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Farm management
ISBN : PSU:000057741451

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Farm Business Management by Emery N. Castle,Manning Henry Becker Pdf

Author : Robert Morris,Gilly Vanderkamp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131786712

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English Medieval Agriculture, 1000-1485 by Robert Morris,Gilly Vanderkamp Pdf

Author : Bruce M.S. Campbell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000944433

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Field Systems and Farming Systems in Late Medieval England by Bruce M.S. Campbell Pdf

The 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.

Author : Helena Hamerow,Mark McKerracher
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781802079043

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New Perspectives on the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’ by Helena Hamerow,Mark McKerracher Pdf

An Open Access edition is available on the LUP and OAPEN websites. Across Europe, the early medieval period saw the advent of new ways of cereal farming which fed the growth of towns, markets and populations, but also fuelled wealth disparities and the rise of lordship. These developments have sometimes been referred to as marking an ‘agricultural revolution’, yet the nature and timing of these critical changes remain subject to intense debate, despite more than a century of research. The papers in this volume demonstrate how the combined application of cutting-edge scientific analyses, along with new theoretical models and challenges to conventional understandings, can reveal trajectories of agricultural development which, while complementary overall, do not indicate a single period of change involving the extension of arable, the introduction of the mouldboard plough, and regular crop rotation. Rather, these phenomena become evident at different times and in different places across England throughout the period, and rarely in an unambiguously ‘progressive’ fashion. Presenting innovative bioarchaeological research from the ground-breaking Feeding Anglo-Saxon England project, along with fresh insights into ploughing technology, brewing, the nature of agricultural revolutions, and farming practices in Roman Britain and Carolingian Europe, this volume is a critical new contribution to environmental archaeology and medieval studies in England and beyond. Contributors: Amy Bogaard; Hannah Caroe; Neil Faulkner; Emily Forster; Helena Hamerow; Matilda Holmes; Claus Kropp; Lisa Lodwick; Mark McKerracher; Nicolas Schroeder; Elizabeth Stroud; Tom Williamson.

Author : Bruce M.S. Campbell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000948370

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The Medieval Antecedents of English Agricultural Progress by Bruce M.S. Campbell Pdf

Until recently, historians tended to stress the perceived technological and ecological shortcomings of medieval agriculture. The ten essays assembled in this volume offer a contrary view. Based upon close documentary analysis of the demesne farms managed for and by lords, they show that, by 1300, in the most commercialized parts of England, production decisions were based upon relative factor costs and commodity prices. Moreover, when and where economic conditions were ripe and environmental and institutional circumstances favourable, medieval cultivators successfully secured high and ecologically sustainable levels of land productivity. They achieved this by integrating crop and livestock production into the sort of manure-intensive systems of mixed-husbandry which later underpinned the more celebrated output growth of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. If medieval agriculture failed to fulfill the production potential provided by wider adoption of such systems, this is more appropriately explained by the want of the kind of market incentives that might have justified investment, innovation, and specialization on the scale that characterized the so-called 'agricultural revolution', than either the lack of appropriate agricultural technology or the innate 'backwardness' of medieval cultivators.

Author : David Stone
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199247769

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Decision-Making in Medieval Agriculture by David Stone Pdf

David Stone uses contemporary sources to reconstruct the world of the medieval farmer, and argues against the traditional interpretation of the Middle Ages as economically backward.

Author : J. Michael Jefferson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Church property
ISBN : 9781783275571

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The Templar Estates in Lincolnshire, 1185-1565 by J. Michael Jefferson Pdf

A new survey of major Templar landholdings offers fresh insights into key questions about their medieval history.

Author : Spike Gibbs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009311830

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Lordship, State Formation and Local Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern England by Spike Gibbs Pdf

Shows how lordship and state formation affected local authority in the transition between medieval and early modern England.

Author : Christopher Dyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192586537

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Peasants Making History by Christopher Dyer Pdf

Peasants have been despised, underrated, or disregarded in the past. Historians and archaeologists are now giving them a more positive assessment, and in Peasants Making History, Christopher Dyer sets a new agenda for this kind of study. Using as his example the peasants of the west midlands of England, Dyer examines peasant society in relation to their social superiors (their lords), their neighbours, and their households, and finds them making decisions and taking options to improve their lives. In their management of farming, both cultivation of fields and keeping of livestock, they made a series of modifications and some dramatic changes, not just reacting to shifts in circumstances but also devising creative initiatives. Peasants played an active role in the development of towns, both by migrating into urban settings, but also by trading actively in urban markets. Industry in the countryside was not imposed on the rural population, but often the result of peasant enterprise and flexibility. If we examine peasant attitudes and mentalities, we find them engaging in political life, making a major contribution to religion, recognizing the need to conserve the environment, and balancing the interests of individuals with those of the communities in which they lived. Many features of our world have medieval roots, and peasants played an important part in the development of the rural landscape, participation of ordinary people in government, parish church buildings, towns, and social welfare. The evidence to support this peasant-centred view has to be recovered by imaginative interpretation, and by using every type of source, including the testimony of archaeology and landscape.

Author : Martin Bakers
Publisher : Cambridge Stanford Books
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Agriculture in the Middle Ages by Martin Bakers Pdf

In the Middle Ages agriculture underwent many changes. The nobles and the clergy were considered the most important members of the feudal society. However, they were never the majority: in the Middle Ages, almost all people were peasants. Not all farmers had the same category and social status. Many of them were free men. Among these, some were small landowners who lived on their own land, while others, the settlers, leased the feudal lord a small plot of land.

Author : Jean Shepherd Hamm
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313359682

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Term Paper Resource Guide to Medieval History by Jean Shepherd Hamm Pdf

Help students get the most out of studying medieval history with this comprehensive and practical research guide to topics and resources. Term Paper Resource Guide to Medieval History brings key historic events and individuals alive to enrich and stimulate students in challenging and enjoyable ways. Students from high school to college will be able to get a jump start on assignments with the hundreds of term paper projects and research information offered here. The book transforms and elevates the research experience and will prove an invaluable resource for motivating and educating students. Each event entry begins with a brief summary to pique interest and then offers original and thought-provoking term paper ideas in both standard and alternative formats that often incorporate the latest in electronic media, such as the iPod and iMovie. The best primary and secondary sources for further research are annotated, followed by vetted, stable website suggestions and multimedia resources, usually films, for further viewing and listening.