The Origins of Open Field Agriculture

ISBN-13: 9780367180386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 254 str.

Trevor Rowley

Opis

Originally published in 1981 The Origins of Open Field Agriculture looks at the challenges to traditional ideas on the origins of settlement and their associated economy and casts new light on understandings of village development.

Spis treści

List of Figures and Plates  Preface  1. Archaeology and the Origins of Open-field Agriculture  2. The Origins of Open-field Agriculture – The Archaeological Fieldwork Evidence  3. Open-field Agriculture – The Evidence from the Pre-Conquest Charters of the West-Midlands  4. Approaches to the Adoption of the Midland System  5. Commonfield Origins – The Regional Dimension  6. The Interpretation of Subdivided Fields: A Study in Private or Communal Interests?  7. Townfield Origins: The Case of Cockfield, Country Durham  8. The Evolution of Settlement and Open-field Topography in North Arden down to 1300  9. The Origin of Planned Field System in Holderness, Yorkshire  10. Early Customary Tenures in Wales and Open-field Agriculture  Bibliography  Notes on Contributors  Index

O autorze

Trevor Rowley