wyszukanych pozycji: 9
Dry Stone Walls: History and Heritage
ISBN: 9781445651484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Dry stone walls create much of the character of upland landscapes across Britain. How do we go about dating dry stone walls? Why were they built and by whom? This book seeks answers to these questions and also suggests how walls themselves may be 'read' as historical evidence, shedding light on past farming practice and the history of local communities. The first part of the book traces the history of dry stone walls from medieval times to the present. The standard form of most dry stone walls probably dates from Tudor times but the great era of wall-building in the uplands took place...
Dry stone walls create much of the character of upland landscapes across Britain. How do we go about dating dry stone walls? Why were they built and b...
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81,04 zł |
The Harvest of the Hills: Rural Life in Northern England and the Scottish Borders
ISBN: 9781853312397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This illustrated environmental history of rural life in Northern England and the Scottish Borders in the late medieval and early modern periods explores the relationship between society and the environment - the ways in which humans responded to and used the environment in which they lived.The author uses the orders and byelaws made by manorial courts to build up a picture of how pastoral society in the Pennine, Lake District and Border hills husbanded the resources of the uplands. It offers an upland, pastoral paradigm of land use, the management of common land, and the transition from...
This illustrated environmental history of rural life in Northern England and the Scottish Borders in the late medieval and early modern periods explor...
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160,80 zł |
Parish Boundaries
ISBN: 9780747804703 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Recorded only by dotted lines on Ordnance Survey maps, sometimes marked by half-forgotten mossy stones, parish boundaries are a fascinating part of our landscape heritage. This guide to the study of local boundaries explains how to assess their patterns.
Recorded only by dotted lines on Ordnance Survey maps, sometimes marked by half-forgotten mossy stones, parish boundaries are a fascinating part of... |
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38,17 zł |
Northern England and Southern Scotland in the Central Middle Ages
ISBN: 9781783272662 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the development of northern England and southern Scotland in the formative era of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. How did "middle Britain" come to be divided between two separate unitary kingdoms called "England" and "Scotland"? How, and how differently, was government exercised and experienced? How did people identify themselves by their languages and naming practices? What major themes can be detected in the development of ecclesiastical structures and religious culture? What can be learned about the rural and the emerging urban...
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the development of northern England and southern Scotland in the formative era of the twelfth a...
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570,57 zł |
Common Land in Britain: A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day
ISBN: 9781783277438 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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492,77 zł |
Common Land in Britain: A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day
ISBN: 9781837651320 / Miękka / 2024 / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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131,71 zł |
Contested Common Land: Environmental Governance Past and Present
ISBN: 9781138971752 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This innovative and interdisciplinary book makes a major contribution to common pool resource studies. It offers a new perspective on the sustainable governance of common resources, grounded in contemporary and archival research on the common lands of England and Wales - an important common resource with multiple, and often conflicting, uses. It encompasses ecologically sensitive environments and landscapes, is an important agricultural resource and provides public access to the countryside for recreation. Contested Common Land brings together historical and contemporary legal scholarship to...
This innovative and interdisciplinary book makes a major contribution to common pool resource studies. It offers a new perspective on the sustainable ...
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228,18 zł |
Thomas Denton: A Perambulation of Cumberland, 1687-8, Including Descriptions of Westmorland, the Isle of Man and Ireland: (cumbria Record Office MS D/
ISBN: 9780854440627 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume prints for the first time the 'perambulation' of Cumberland compiled by the lawyer, Thomas Denton, for Sir John Lowther of Lowther in 1687-8. Denton's manuscript provides the most detailed surviving description of the county in the seventeenth century. Taking the methods of earlier antiquaries as a framework, and incorporating much of the text of the history of Cumberland written c.1603 by John Denton, the perambulation includes a wealth of contemporary detail for almost every parish and township in the county, including particulars of land tenure, valuations of estates,...
This volume prints for the first time the 'perambulation' of Cumberland compiled by the lawyer, Thomas Denton, for Sir John Lowther of Lowther in 1687...
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259,35 zł |
The Bible: Culture, Community, Society
ISBN: 9780567657206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What kind of authority does Scripture have? How is Scripture's authority to be negotiated in relation to other sources of authority? And what are the implications of confessing the Bible to be authoritative? The Bible: Culture, Community and Society seeks to answer these questions, covering three core themes. First, reading the Bible in the context of modernity - the challenges the intellectual history of modernity has posed to the Bible's authority and how historical work can co-exist with a commitment to the Bible as the Word of God. Secondly, the Bible as a text that forms the church... What kind of authority does Scripture have? How is Scripture's authority to be negotiated in relation to other sources of authority? And what are t... |
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98,50 zł |