Farming in the First Millennium AD
Farming in the First Millennium AD
$144.00
USDAt a time early in the twenty-first century when the nature and future of British farming is very much a matter of public debate, this volume presents an up-to-date overview of the subject between one and two thousand years ago. Its importance lies in providing an authoritative and scholarly synthesis of a great deal of research--environmental, archaeological and historical --which cumulatively makes a significant shift in the understanding of Britain and its farming peoples, of the British landscape and of farming itself.
- The first synthesis of the topic for 30 years
- Concludes with a review of the outcomes of farming, and a chronological model of British agriculture in the first millennium AD
- A significant contribution to the understanding of environmental issues and new interpretations on numerous matters, e.g. implements, illuminated manuscripts, chronology
Reviews & endorsements
"[A]n example of a balanced scholarly work that successfully maintains its readability while fulfilling its stated objective as a textbook intended for undergraduates and general readers...capably traverses difficult scholarly territory and presents an engaging general picture of British agriculture over a thousand-year period." Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Product details
January 2003Hardback
9780521813648
412 pages
244 × 170 × 24 mm
0.85kg
46 b/w illus. 6 maps
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Table of Contents
- 1. The first millennium
- 2. Evidence
- 3. Environment
- 4. Land
- 5. Settlements
- 6. Farms
- 7. Fields
- 8. Technology
- 9. Ards and ploughs
- 10. Arable
- 11. Livestock
- 12. Food and diet
- 13. An agrarian society
- 14. Farming in the first millennium.
