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Champion The Making and Unmaking of the English Midland Landscape

Williamson Tom Liddiard Robert Partida Tracey
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780859898683
Publisert
2013-04-19
Utgiver
Liverpool University Press; University of Exeter Press
Høyde
248 mm
Bredde
177 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Williamson Tom
Liddiard Robert
Partida Tracey

Om bidragsyterne

Tom Williamson is Professor in Landscape History at UEA and published 'The Transformation of Rural England: Farming and the Landscape 1700-1870' with UEP in 2002. Robert Liddiard completed a PhD at UEA in 2000 and has published on high-status landscapes in the Middle Ages. Tracey Partida is a consultant specializing in geographical information systems (GIS) and her PhD is in progress at University of Huddersfield.

Champion The Making and Unmaking of the English Midland Landscape

Williamson Tom Liddiard Robert Partida Tracey
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk
Williamson Tom Liddiard Robert Partida Tracey
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk
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A masterpiece of scholarship…using the best documented part of the ‘champion landscapes’ of the English Midlands, the authors have tackled what is arguably the most contentious topic in landscape history, the origins and development of villages and fields. The subject has been studied by historians, archaeologists and geographers for well over a century. Yet, despite the huge amount of work on it, especially over the last 20 years or so, no consensus has been reached on almost any aspect. This book is a truly great piece of work that would considerably advance the history of villages and fields.<br />
<b>Christopher Tayler</b>

This book represents the major output of a landscape project that, despite being focused on just one county, is undoubtedly of national significance.<br />
<b>Stephen Rippon</b>

This is an important book for all those interested in the development of the English landscape.  Clearly written and beautifully illustrated, Champion presents a strong central argument and a raft of stimulating secondary ideas. …This book enriches our understanding of landscape …<br /><b>Medieval Settlement Research Group</b>

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The work of Williamson, Liddiard, and Partida represents another landmark in the controversy, and our understanding and interpretation of the subject will not be the same again.
<p><b>Mark Bailey, <i>English Historical Review</i></b></p>

Champion: The pattern of nucleated settlements and extensive open fields most commonly found within the landscape of the Midlands. This book presents a radical reinterpretation of the origins of villages and open fields, and their development in the late medieval and post-medieval periods, in the Midland, ‘champion’ areas of England. Most landscape historians believe that villages were created in the middle or later Saxon periods through the ‘nucleation’ of a formerly dispersed pattern of settlement, that many villages were initially laid out as planned, regular settlements and that open fields probably came into existence at the same time. Re-examination and mapping of the data suggests ‘nucleation’ is a myth, ‘village planning’ an illusion and open fields were created, at least in their classic, ‘regular’ forms, only in the eleventh or twelfth centuries.
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This archaeological landcscape study examines the origins of villages and open fields, and their development in the late- and post-medieval periods in the English Midlands.
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Why Northamptonshire? • Debating the Medieval Landscape • The Post-Medieval Landscape • Methodology
  • Chapter 2: Structures of Landscape
  • Geology and Topography • Climate and Soils • Territory and Topography • Late Prehistoric and Roman
  • Settlement • Early and Middle Saxon Settlement • Territorial Organisation • Demographic and Agricultural
  • Expansion • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3: Medieval Settlement
  • Introduction • Dispersion and Nucleation • Villages: Geology, ‘Cores’ and Expansion • Village Plans: Patterns of
  • Earlier Land Use • Geology, Land Use and Plan Form • Regular Tofts and ‘Planning’ • Dispersed Settlements •
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 4: Medieval Land Use: Field and Forest
  • Introduction • Arable • Pasture • Meadow • Woodland and Forest • Heaths • The Antiquity of the Open Fields
  • • Conclusion
  • Chapter 5: The Post-Medieval Landscape
  • Introduction • Tenure and Ownership • Enclosure • Modifying the Open Fields • The Chronology of
  • Northamptonshire Enclosure • Enclosing the Forests • Enclosure and Land Use Change • The Impact of
  • Enclosure • The Development of Rural Settlement • Conclusion
  • Chapter 6: Northamptonshire in Context
  • Woodland and Champion • The Characteristics of ‘Woodland’ Landscapes • Variations in the Medieval
  • Landscapes of the Midlands • Variations in Post-Medieval Landscape and Agriculture • Woodland and
  • Pasture • The Origins of Regional Variation • Explaining Regional Variation • The Implications of Post-Medieval
  • Developments
  • Chapter 7: Landscape: Time, Agency and Character
  • Historic Landscape Character • Northamptonshire Field Patterns • Landscape and Agency
Les mer
Presents the most detailed reconstruction of landscape and land-use in a medieval county ever attempted. Provides a radical reinterpretation of village and open-field origins. Casts new light on the practice of agriculture, the development of open fields and the character of the enclosure process in the post-medieval period. CHAMPION: the pattern of nucleated settlements and extensive open fields most commonly found within the landscape of the Midlands.
Les mer

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A masterpiece of scholarship…using the best documented part of the ‘champion landscapes’ of the English Midlands, the authors have tackled what is arguably the most contentious topic in landscape history, the origins and development of villages and fields. The subject has been studied by historians, archaeologists and geographers for well over a century. Yet, despite the huge amount of work on it, especially over the last 20 years or so, no consensus has been reached on almost any aspect. This book is a truly great piece of work that would considerably advance the history of villages and fields.<br />
<b>Christopher Tayler</b>

This book represents the major output of a landscape project that, despite being focused on just one county, is undoubtedly of national significance.<br />
<b>Stephen Rippon</b>

This is an important book for all those interested in the development of the English landscape.  Clearly written and beautifully illustrated, Champion presents a strong central argument and a raft of stimulating secondary ideas. …This book enriches our understanding of landscape …<br /><b>Medieval Settlement Research Group</b>

Se alle

The work of Williamson, Liddiard, and Partida represents another landmark in the controversy, and our understanding and interpretation of the subject will not be the same again.
<p><b>Mark Bailey, <i>English Historical Review</i></b></p>

Champion: The pattern of nucleated settlements and extensive open fields most commonly found within the landscape of the Midlands. This book presents a radical reinterpretation of the origins of villages and open fields, and their development in the late medieval and post-medieval periods, in the Midland, ‘champion’ areas of England. Most landscape historians believe that villages were created in the middle or later Saxon periods through the ‘nucleation’ of a formerly dispersed pattern of settlement, that many villages were initially laid out as planned, regular settlements and that open fields probably came into existence at the same time. Re-examination and mapping of the data suggests ‘nucleation’ is a myth, ‘village planning’ an illusion and open fields were created, at least in their classic, ‘regular’ forms, only in the eleventh or twelfth centuries.
Les mer
This archaeological landcscape study examines the origins of villages and open fields, and their development in the late- and post-medieval periods in the English Midlands.
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Why Northamptonshire? • Debating the Medieval Landscape • The Post-Medieval Landscape • Methodology
  • Chapter 2: Structures of Landscape
  • Geology and Topography • Climate and Soils • Territory and Topography • Late Prehistoric and Roman
  • Settlement • Early and Middle Saxon Settlement • Territorial Organisation • Demographic and Agricultural
  • Expansion • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3: Medieval Settlement
  • Introduction • Dispersion and Nucleation • Villages: Geology, ‘Cores’ and Expansion • Village Plans: Patterns of
  • Earlier Land Use • Geology, Land Use and Plan Form • Regular Tofts and ‘Planning’ • Dispersed Settlements •
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 4: Medieval Land Use: Field and Forest
  • Introduction • Arable • Pasture • Meadow • Woodland and Forest • Heaths • The Antiquity of the Open Fields
  • • Conclusion
  • Chapter 5: The Post-Medieval Landscape
  • Introduction • Tenure and Ownership • Enclosure • Modifying the Open Fields • The Chronology of
  • Northamptonshire Enclosure • Enclosing the Forests • Enclosure and Land Use Change • The Impact of
  • Enclosure • The Development of Rural Settlement • Conclusion
  • Chapter 6: Northamptonshire in Context
  • Woodland and Champion • The Characteristics of ‘Woodland’ Landscapes • Variations in the Medieval
  • Landscapes of the Midlands • Variations in Post-Medieval Landscape and Agriculture • Woodland and
  • Pasture • The Origins of Regional Variation • Explaining Regional Variation • The Implications of Post-Medieval
  • Developments
  • Chapter 7: Landscape: Time, Agency and Character
  • Historic Landscape Character • Northamptonshire Field Patterns • Landscape and Agency
Les mer
Presents the most detailed reconstruction of landscape and land-use in a medieval county ever attempted. Provides a radical reinterpretation of village and open-field origins. Casts new light on the practice of agriculture, the development of open fields and the character of the enclosure process in the post-medieval period. CHAMPION: the pattern of nucleated settlements and extensive open fields most commonly found within the landscape of the Midlands.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780859898683
Publisert
2013-04-19
Utgiver
Liverpool University Press; University of Exeter Press
Høyde
248 mm
Bredde
177 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Williamson Tom
Liddiard Robert
Partida Tracey

Om bidragsyterne

Tom Williamson is Professor in Landscape History at UEA and published 'The Transformation of Rural England: Farming and the Landscape 1700-1870' with UEP in 2002. Robert Liddiard completed a PhD at UEA in 2000 and has published on high-status landscapes in the Middle Ages. Tracey Partida is a consultant specializing in geographical information systems (GIS) and her PhD is in progress at University of Huddersfield.

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