The Changing English Countryside 1400 1700

Author : Leonard Cantor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351730198

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The Changing English Countryside, 1400-1700 by Leonard Cantor Pdf

The period covered by this book, first published in 1987, was an important one for the rural landscape in England. The author describes and analyses the evolution of the countryside during the years which witnessed the gradual disappearance of the medieval landscape and the introduction of new farming methods and industrial techniques, thus laying the foundation for the radical changes that were to transform the English countryside in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The main features of the countryside are dealt with fully and examples are given of their remains which can still be identified in the landscape today.

Author : Leonard Cantor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351730204

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The Changing English Countryside, 1400-1700 by Leonard Cantor Pdf

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 The English countryside in 1400 -- CHAPTER 2 Sheep or men? The cultivated landscape in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- CHAPTER 3 Agricultural improvement: the cultivated landscape in the seventeenth century -- CHAPTER 4 Settlements and buildings in the countryside -- CHAPTER 5 Woodland: forests, chases, parks and gardens -- CHAPTER 6 Industries in the countryside -- CHAPTER 7 Roads and rivers: movement in the landscape -- CHAPTER 8 The English countryside in 1700 -- Further reading and references -- Index.

Author : Joan Thirsk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : England
ISBN : 0198606192

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Rural England by Joan Thirsk Pdf

From prehistory to the present day, our landscape has been transformed by successive periods of human activity, triggered by the rise and fall of populations and their need to be fed, housed, and employed. These changes have built up layers of evidence which offer historians exciting insightsinto land use through the centuries and how rural communities of the past lived their lives. In this ground-breaking study - published in hardback as The English Rural Landscape and now available in paperback - Joan Thirsk and her team of distinguished contributors, many of whom live in the places they describe, invite us to explore the historical richness of the English landscape. Eachchapter synthesizes the latest thinking and provides fresh perspectives on its subject. It is the first book since W. G. Hoskins' definitive study The Making of the English Landscape, published nearly 50 years ago, to do so. The first ten chapters describe the characteristic features of the main landscape types, including fenland, downland, woodland, marshland, and moorland. However geographically scattered areas of a particular landscape type are, they have often been moulded by successive generations in ways that haveproduced strong physical similarities. The second part of the book is made up of five cameo features, each exploring an individual place in detail: the people and the distinctive histories that shaped them. These include the Land Settlement experimental village of Fen Drayton, set up during the Great Depression in the 1930s, and surveysof the very different settlements of Hook Norton in North Oxfordshire and Staintondale in North Yorkshire. Rural England: A History of the Landscape shows us how much of the rural past is still visible if we choose to dig for it. It illustrates how we might go about exploring it for ourselves. It is the definitive work on the history of the English landscape for all would-be landscape and local historydetectives, professional and amateur alike.

Author : John Stephen Morrill
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0192893270

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The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor & Stuart Britain by John Stephen Morrill Pdf

Two centuries of dramatic change are covered by this exciting and richly illustrated work. Eighteen leading scholars explore the political, social, religious, and cultural history of the period when monarchs based in south-east England imperfectly attempted to extend their authority over thewhole of the British Isles. These centuries witnessed the Reformation, the civil wars, and two revolutions, in which two monarchs, two wives of a king, and two archbishops of Canterbury were tried and executed, and hundreds of men and women tortured and burned in the name of religion. Yet in the same period, an explosion ofliteracy and the printed word, transformations in landscapes and townscapes, new forms of wealth, new structures of power, and new forms of political participation freed minds and broadened horizons. These centuries marked the beginning of Britain's imperial power and its emergence as perhaps themost liberal and mature of European states. The integrated illustrations and maps form an essential part of the book, complementing all aspects of the text. It also contains a Chronology, Glossary, Family Trees of the monarchy, Further Reading, and an extensive Index.

Author : John A. Wagner,Susan Walters Schmid Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1467 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598842999

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Encyclopedia of Tudor England [3 volumes] by John A. Wagner,Susan Walters Schmid Ph.D. Pdf

Authority and accessibility combine to bring the history and the drama of Tudor England to life. Almost 900 engaging entries cover the life and times of Henry VIII, Mary I, Elizabeth I, William Shakespeare, and much, much more. Written for high school students, college undergraduates, and public library patrons—indeed, for anyone interested in this important and colorful period—the three-volume Encyclopedia of Tudor England illuminates the era's most important people, events, ideas, movements, institutions, and publications. Concise, yet in-depth entries offer comprehensive coverage and an engaging mix of accessibility and authority. Chronologically, the encyclopedia spans the period from the accession of Henry VII in 1485 to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. It also examines pre-Tudor people and topics that shaped the Tudor period, as well as individuals and events whose influence extended into the Jacobean period after 1603. Geographically, the encyclopedia covers England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and also Russia, Asia, America, and important states in continental Europe. Topics include: the English Reformation; the development of Parliament; the expansion of foreign trade; the beginnings of American exploration; the evolution of the nuclear family; and the flowering of English theater and poetry, culminating in the works of William Shakespeare.

Author : John A. Wagner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313357411

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Voices of Shakespeare's England by John A. Wagner Pdf

Voices of Shakespeare's England offers students and public library patrons over 50 primary documents that illuminate the character, personalities, and events of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Voices of Shakespeare's England: Contemporary Accounts of Elizabethan Daily Life helps readers explore the era that produced, among other things, the world's greatest playwright. It brings together excerpts from over 50 primary documents written in William Shakespeare's lifetime, including letters, literature, speeches and polemics, official reports, and descriptive narratives. Voices of Shakespeare's England includes the works of Shakespeare himself, as well as other poets and playwrights, but it also expands beyond the literary world to cover politics, religion, economics, social change, and the royal court. By allowing Shakespeare's contemporaries to speak in their own voices, it offers an illuminating look at the breadth of Elizabethan society, including major historic events in England as well as Scotland, Ireland, the European continent, and even the new world of America.

Author : Stuart J. Borsch
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780292783171

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The Black Death in Egypt and England by Stuart J. Borsch Pdf

Throughout the fourteenth century AD/eighth century H, waves of plague swept out of Central Asia and decimated populations from China to Iceland. So devastating was the Black Death across the Old World that some historians have compared its effects to those of a nuclear holocaust. As countries began to recover from the plague during the following century, sharp contrasts arose between the East, where societies slumped into long-term economic and social decline, and the West, where technological and social innovation set the stage for Europe's dominance into the twentieth century. Why were there such opposite outcomes from the same catastrophic event? In contrast to previous studies that have looked to differences between Islam and Christianity for the solution to the puzzle, this pioneering work proposes that a country's system of landholding primarily determined how successfully it recovered from the calamity of the Black Death. Stuart Borsch compares the specific cases of Egypt and England, countries whose economies were based in agriculture and whose pre-plague levels of total and agrarian gross domestic product were roughly equivalent. Undertaking a thorough analysis of medieval economic data, he cogently explains why Egypt's centralized and urban landholding system was unable to adapt to massive depopulation, while England's localized and rural landholding system had fully recovered by the year 1500.

Author : John A. Wagner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216075721

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Documents of Shakespeare's England by John A. Wagner Pdf

This engaging collection of over 60 primary document selections sheds light on the personalities, issues, events, and ideas that defined and shaped life in England during the years of Shakespeare's life and career. Documents of Shakespeare's England contains more than 60 primary document selections that will help readers understand all aspects of life in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. The book is divided into 12 topical sections, such as Politics and Parliament, London Life, and Queen and Court, which offer five document selections each. Each document is preceded by a detailed introduction that puts the selection into historical context and explains why it is important. A general introduction and chronology help readers understand Shakespeare's England in broad terms and see connections, causes, and consequences. Bibliographies of current and useful print and electronic information resources accompany each document, and a general bibliography lists seminal works on Shakespeare's England. This is an engaging and accurate introduction to the England of William Shakespeare told in the words of those who experienced it.

Author : Edwin Brezette DeWindt
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580445184

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A Slice of Life by Edwin Brezette DeWindt Pdf

Since the audience for this text is assumed to be primarily students of medieval history, nothing from a specifically literary text has been included. Further, since archaeology deals in artifacts and other physical remains, it is impractical to supply material from that discipline. Therefore, only material from record sources is provided . . . These are the only written materials that permit some measure of personalized contact with specific men and women from the past, so this gives them a special importance. - from the Introduction

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137100528

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The Battle of the Frogs and Fairford's Flies by NA NA Pdf

Author : Marjorie Swann
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812203172

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Curiosities and Texts by Marjorie Swann Pdf

A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats and middling-sort men alike crammed their homes full of a bewildering variety of physical objects: antique coins, scientific instruments, minerals, mummified corpses, zoological specimens, plants, ethnographic objects from Asia and the Americas, statues, portraits. Why were these bizarre jumbles of artifacts so popular? In Curiosities and Texts, Marjorie Swann demonstrates that collections of physical objects were central to early modern English literature and culture. Swann examines the famous collection of rarities assembled by the Tradescant family; the development of English natural history; narrative catalogs of English landscape features that began to appear in the Tudor and Stuart periods; the writings of Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick; and the foundation of the British Museum. Through this wide-ranging series of case studies, Swann addresses two important questions: How was the collection, which was understood as a form of cultural capital, appropriated in early modern England to construct new social selves and modes of subjectivity? And how did literary texts—both as material objects and as vehicles of representation—participate in the process of negotiating the cultural significance of collectors and collecting? Crafting her unique argument with a balance of detail and insight, Swann sheds new light on material culture's relationship to literature, social authority, and personal identity.

Author : Adam Zucker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107003088

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The Places of Wit in Early Modern English Comedy by Adam Zucker Pdf

An exploration of wit, witlessness and social and comic conventions in the plays of Shakespeare, Jonson and their contemporaries.

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 4334 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351624817

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Routledge Library Editions: Rural History by Various Pdf

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1969 and 1990, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the rural history and provide an examination of related key issues. The volumes examine social change in rural communities approaching the industrial revolution, whilst also providing an overview of the history of rural populations in England, France, Germany, Mexico and the United States. This set will be of particular interest to students of history, business and economics.

Author : Helen Osborn
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719831485

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Our Village Ancestors by Helen Osborn Pdf

This book will be a source of help for anybody researching their farming and countryside ancestors in England. Looked at through the lens of rural life, and specifically the English village, it provides advice and inspiration on placing rural people into their geographic and historical context. It covers the time from the start of parish registers in the Tudor world, when most of our ancestors worked on the land, until the beginning of the twentieth century, when many had moved to the towns. Helen Osborn demonstrates how genealogical records are integral to their place of origin and can be illuminated using local newspaper reports, and the work of local historians. She explores the stories of people who lived in the countryside in the past, as told by the documents that record them, both rich and poor. The book will be particularly valuable to anyone who is looking for a deeper understanding of their family history, rather than simply collecting names on the tree.

Author : S.A. Mileson,Stephen Anthony Mileson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,6 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.