Parks In Medieval England

Author : S.A. Mileson,Stephen Anthony Mileson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199565672

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Parks in Medieval England by S.A. Mileson,Stephen Anthony Mileson Pdf

Parks were prominent and, indeed, controversial features of the medieval countryside, but they have been unevenly studied and remain only partly understood. Stephen Mileson provides the first full-length study of the subject, examining parks across the country and throughout the Middle Ages in their full social, economic, jurisdictional, and landscape context. The first half of the book investigates the purpose of these royal and aristocratic reserves, which have been variously claimed as hunting grounds, economic assets, landscape settings for residences, and status symbols. An emphasis on the aristocratic passion for the chase as the key motivation for park-making provides an important challenge to more recent views and allows for a deeper appreciation of the connection between park-making and the expression of power and lordship. The second part of the book examines the impact of park creation on wider society, from the king and aristocracy to peasants and townsmen. Instead of the traditional emphasis on the importance of royal regulation, greater attention is paid to the effects of lordly park-making on other members of the landed elite and ordinary people. These widespread enclosures interfered with customary uses of woodland and waste, hunting practices, roads and farming; not surprisingly, they could become a focus for aristocratic feud, popular protest and furtive resistance. Combining historical, archaeological, and landscape evidence, this ground-breaking study provides fresh insight into contemporary values and how they helped to shape the medieval landscape.

Author : Stephen Anthony Mileson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:804694437

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Parks in Medieval England by Stephen Anthony Mileson Pdf

Parks were prominent and controversial features of the medieval countryside, but they have been unevenly studied and remain only partly understood. Mileson provides the first full-length study of the subject, examining parks across the country throughout the Middle Ages in their social, economic, landscape and jurisdictional context.

Author : Robert Liddiard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Gardening
ISBN : UOM:39015074079560

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The Medieval Park by Robert Liddiard Pdf

The park - a feature of the landscape we always associate with the hunting of deer - played an important role in the psyche of Britain's medieval aristocracy. This well-illustrated book offers a reappraisal of the park by a new generation of landscape researchers, who use a diversity of approaches to assess its economy, ecology and social role. They show how parks actually had many functions other than deer management and hunting; they were integrated into the wider rural economy, and also provided a means by which seigniorial control of the landscape might be demonstrated. They varied considerably across Britain, and are of considerable conservation significance today.

Author : Leonard Martin Cantor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Deer hunting
ISBN : 0946348006

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The Medieval Parks of England by Leonard Martin Cantor Pdf

Author : Fiona Beglane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Parks, Medieval
ISBN : 1846825695

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Anglo-Norman Parks in Medieval Ireland by Fiona Beglane Pdf

This book examines the evidence for medieval parks in Anglo-Norman Ireland. It is the first book on the subject and concentrates on the parks documented in the period 1169 to c.1350. Drawing on archaeological fieldwork, historical and place-name evidence, the book generates a broad understanding of the role of parks in medieval society. It stresses the importance of the landscape and of the deer, cattle, and timber within it as integral aspects of the material culture of high medieval Ireland. The research is underpinned by extensive fieldwork, which has identified surviving park features in the landscape. Key topics explored include the form and function of medieval parks, their occurrence and location in the landscape, the status and identity of their owners, and a comparison with parks elsewhere. Notably, the evidence suggests that both parks and fallow deer were relatively uncommon in Ireland compared to England. The reasons for this lie in chronology, landscape, and politics, and these form a major theme within the book, which looks at over 45 parks across Ireland. [Subject: History, Medieval Studies, Irish Studies, Archaeology]

Author : Leonard Cantor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000368673

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The English Medieval Landscape by Leonard Cantor Pdf

First published in 1982, The English Medieval Landscape was written to recreate and analyse the development of the major elements of the medieval landscape. Illustrated with maps and photographs, the book explores the nature of the English landscape between 1066 and 1485, from farms and chases to castles, monastic settlements, villages, roads, and more. The English Medieval Landscape will appeal to those with an interest in medieval history and British social history.

Author : Christopher Gerrard,Alejandra Gutiérrez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191062124

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The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain by Christopher Gerrard,Alejandra Gutiérrez Pdf

The Middle Ages are all around us in Britain. The Tower of London and the castles of Scotland and Wales are mainstays of cultural tourism and an inspiring cross-section of later medieval finds can now be seen on display in museums across England, Scotland, and Wales. Medieval institutions from Parliament and monarchy to universities are familiar to us and we come into contact with the later Middle Ages every day when we drive through a village or town, look up at the castle on the hill, visit a local church or wonder about the earthworks in the fields we see from the window of a train. The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain provides an overview of the archaeology of the later Middle Ages in Britain between AD 1066 and 1550. 61 entries, divided into 10 thematic sections, cover topics ranging from later medieval objects, human remains, archaeological science, standing buildings, and sites such as castles and monasteries, to the well-preserved relict landscapes which still survive. This is a rich and exciting period of the past and most of what we have learnt about the material culture of our medieval past has been discovered in the past two generations. This volume provides comprehensive coverage of the latest research and describes the major projects and concepts that are changing our understanding of our medieval heritage.

Author : Chris Given-Wilson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 071904152X

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An Illustrated History of Late Medieval England by Chris Given-Wilson Pdf

The late Middle Ages (c.1200-1500) was an age of transition. The major events of this period - the Black Death, the Hundred Years War, the rise of Parliament, the depositions of five English kings between 1327 and 1483 - are examined in detail in this book.

Author : Nicola Griffith
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374711016

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Hild by Nicola Griffith Pdf

Award-winning author Nicola Griffith's brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods are struggling, their priests worrying. Hild is the king's youngest niece, and she has a glimmering mind and a natural, noble authority. She will become a fascinating woman and one of the pivotal figures of the Middle Ages: Saint Hilda of Whitby. But now she has only the powerful curiosity of a bright child, a will of adamant, and a way of seeing the world—of studying nature, of matching cause with effect, of observing her surroundings closely and predicting what will happen next—that can seem uncanny, even supernatural, to those around her. Her uncle, Edwin of Northumbria, plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Hild establishes a place for herself at his side as the king's seer. And she is indispensable—unless she should ever lead the king astray. The stakes are life and death: for Hild, for her family, for her loved ones, and for the increasing numbers who seek the protection of the strange girl who can read the world and see the future. Hild is a young woman at the heart of the violence, subtlety, and mysticism of the early Middle Ages—all of it brilliantly and accurately evoked by Nicola Griffith's luminous prose. Working from what little historical record is extant, Griffith has brought a beautiful, brutal world to vivid, absorbing life.

Author : O. H. Creighton
Publisher : Equinox Publishing Ltd.
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1904768679

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Castles and Landscapes by O. H. Creighton Pdf

This paperback edition of a book first published in hardback in 2002 is a fascinating and provocative study which looks at castles in a new light, using the theories and methods of landscape studies.

Author : Michael Hodder
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780750951951

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The Archaeology of Sutton Park by Michael Hodder Pdf

Sutton Park is a nationally important historic landscape. Its many visitors are often drawn by the rich ecology that this public open space of about 2,250 acres provides. However, the Park also contains extensive and well-preserved archaeological remains of various periods of the past. The recent exposure of hitherto concealed archaeological features by heathland clearance has emphasised the remarkable extent and survival of these remains. This book reveals the evidence of manmade structures and objects that show how people exploited and managed their environment; amongst other things, the 28km (17 miles) of former boundaries that explain the present-day vegetation patterns; and the impact that the industrial use of water power had on the landscape. This informative and carefully illustrated book reveals the special history of this site to visitors from near and far.

Author : Linda Clark
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1843831686

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Of Mice and Men by Linda Clark Pdf

New contributions to the most important critical debates of the period. The themes of 'image' and 'representation' play a major part in the essays collected in this volume; subjects explored include the religious sympathies of townsfolk and gentry and their physical manifestations, the cultural setting for the activities of leading families of the period and the interaction of Crown and community of the realm. As the fruit of original archival research on the later Middle Ages, overall the contributions offer the most up-to-date scholarship on the period, and a snapshot of the most crucial issues in current research. Contributors: CLIVE BURGESS, PAUL CAVILL, JON DENTON, THOMAS S. FREEMAN, ALASDAIR HAWKYARD, STEPHEN MILESON, JENNI NUTTALL, COLIN RICHMOND, ANNE F. SUTTON

Author : Anne Rowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Gardening
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124154571

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Medieval Parks of Hertfordshire by Anne Rowe Pdf

the county in medieval times. Parks were particularly numerous in the north-eastern part of the county and relatively sparse in the south-west. The underlying reasons for this pattern are explored, focusing in particular on the unusual relationship between the distribution of the parks and the distribution of woodland in the county at Domesday. Based on an enormous amount of original work, this meticulously researched book opens a window onto medieval Hertfordshire and illuminates a significant aspect of the county's landscape history." --Book Jacket.

Author : Leonard Cantor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000368666

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The English Medieval Landscape by Leonard Cantor Pdf

First published in 1982, The English Medieval Landscape was written to recreate and analyse the development of the major elements of the medieval landscape. Illustrated with maps and photographs, the book explores the nature of the English landscape between 1066 and 1485, from farms and chases to castles, monastic settlements, villages, roads, and more. The English Medieval Landscape will appeal to those with an interest in medieval history and British social history.

Author : J. Thibodeaux
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230290464

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Negotiating Clerical Identities by J. Thibodeaux Pdf

Clerics in the Middle Ages were subjected to differing ideals of masculinity, both from within the Church and from lay society. The historians in this volume interrogate the meaning of masculine identity for the medieval clergy, by considering a wide range of sources, time periods and geographical contexts.