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1 online resource (448 pages) |
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Ruralia Ser. ; v. XII |
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Ruralia Ser
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| Contents |
Intro; Foreword; Niall Brady and Claudia Theune; Introduction; Claudia Theune and Niall Brady; Transformations of settlements for agricultural production between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages in Italy; Marcello Rotili*; Beyond the borders; Transformations, acculturation, and adaptation between Lazio and Campania during the Lombard Period (6th -- 8th centuries); Cristina Corsi*; Deciphering transformations of rural settlement and land-use patterns in central Adriatic Italy between the 6th and the 12th centuries AD; Francesca Carboni and Frank Vermeulen* |
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Rural settlement and economy in Campania (South Italy) between Late Antiquity and the Middle AgesNicola Busino*; Post-Roman land-use transformations; Analysing the early medieval countryside in Castelo de Vide (Portugal); Sara Prata*; Change and continuity in rural early medieval Hispania; A comparative multidisciplinary approach to the countryside of Egitania (Idanha-A-Velha, Portugal) and Emerita (Mérida, Spain); Tomás Cordero Ruiz*; Mountain communities in the Catalan Pyrenees: 25 years of archaeological research; Walter Alegría-Tejedor *, Marta Sancho-Planas ** & Maria Soler-Sala *** |
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Not so dark centuries: Changes and continuities in the Catalan landscape (6th-12th centuries)Jordi Bolòs*; Endogenous and exogenous characteristics of settlement development of an early medieval settlement at Sursee (Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland); Christian Auf der Maur*; Counting heads: Post-Roman population decline in the Rhine-Meuse delta (the Netherlands) and the need for more evidence-based reconstructions; Rowin J. van Lanen* & Bert J. Groenewoudt**; Rural settlement in later medieval Ireland through the lens of deserted settlements; Niall Brady* |
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New evidence for the transformative impact of depopulation on currently inhabited medieval rural settlements from archaeological test-pit excavation in EnglandCarenza Lewis*; Late medieval deserted settlements in southern Germany as a consequence of long-term landscape transformations; Rainer Schreg*; Crisis or transition?; Risk and resilience during the Late Medieval agrarian crisis; Eva Svensson*; Assembling in times of transitions; The case of cooking-pit sites; Marie Ødegaard *; Settlement abandonment in Dartmoor (England) |
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Retreat of the margins reassessed in terms of market accessibility factorsLukáš Holata*; Medieval settlement dynamics in peatland reclamations in the western, central, and northern Netherlands; Jan van Doesburg*; Mendicant friaries and the changing landscapes of late medieval Ireland; The foundations of the Augustinian friars in counties Mayo and Sligo; Anne-Julie Lafaye*; Transformation and continuity in the Wexford countryside; Breda Lynch*; Silent witness: the deserted medieval borough of Newtown Jerpoint, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland; Ian W. Doyle* and Tadhg O'Keeffe** |
| Summary |
The idea that the past was an era with long periods of little or no change is almost certainly false. Change has always affected human society. Some of the catalysts for change were exogenous and lay in natural transformations, such as climate change or plant and animal diseases. Others came from endogamous processes, such as demographic change and the resulting alterations in demographic pressure. They might be produced by economic changes in the agrarian economy such as crop- or stock-breeding or better agricultural husbandry systems with the resultant greater harvests. Equally, they might b |
| Notes |
The Anglo-Scottish Western March: A landscape in transition |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Human settlements -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Human settlements
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Theune, Claudia
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| ISBN |
9789088908088 |
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9088908087 |
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