| Description |
1 online resource (232 pages) |
| Series |
Explorations in Local and Regional History, 3 |
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Explorations in Local and Regional History, 3
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| Contents |
Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Abbreviations; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 The origins and development of deserted village studies by Christopher Taylor; 2 Contrasting patterns of village and hamlet desertion in England by Richard Jones; 3 Villages in crisis: social dislocation and desertion, 13701520 by Christopher Dyer; 4 Dr Hoskins I presume! Field visits in the footsteps of a pioneer by Paul Everson and Graham Brown; 5 Houses and communities: archaeological evidence for variation in medieval peasant experience by Sally V. Smith |
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6 Deserted medieval villages and the objects from them by David A. Hinton7 The desertion of Wharram Percy village and its wider context by Stuart Wrathmell; 8 Understanding village desertion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by John Broad; 9 Abandoning the uplands: depopulation among dispersed settlements in western Britain by Robert Silvester; 10 'At Pleasure's Lordly Call': the archaeology of emparked settlements by Tom Wil |
| Summary |
The starting point of this book was a meeting in 1948 in Leicestershire when historians and archaeologists visited newly identified sites of deserted villages. The excitement of these discoveries changed approaches to the medieval countryside. Sixty years later a new group of scholars went back to the same sites and debated their significance in the light of many advances in knowledge. Thousands of villages and smaller settlements were deserted in England and Wales during all periods, though many of them were abandoned between 1340 and 1750. Why were they deserted? Why did some villages surviv |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Antiquities
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056606
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England -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043261
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Great Britain -- History -- 1066-1687. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056742
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Great Britain -- History -- 1660-1714. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056802
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| Subject |
England
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jones, Richard
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| ISBN |
9781905313969 |
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1905313969 |
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