Champion: The Making and Unmaking of the English Midland Landscape - Couverture rigide

Williamson, Tom; Liddiard, Robert; Partida, Tracey

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0859898687 ISBN 13 : 9780859898683

Editeur : University of Exeter Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Exeter Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0859898687
• ISBN 13: 9780859898683
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 252
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible