The Medieval Fenland
The Medieval Fenland
H. C. Darby
August 2011
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Originally published in 1940, this book, together with its companion volume The Draining of the Fens, constitutes an attempt to outline the changing conditions of a fascinating region. The text is ambitious in scope, reflecting the author's position as a historical geographer, and covers a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, ranging from geology to socio-economic analysis. Numerous illustrative figures are contained, including maps, diagrams and photographs of the area, and a bibliography is also provided. Detailed, yet highly readable, this book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Fenland history and historical geography in general.
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August 2011Paperback
9781107614987
230 pages
216 × 140 × 13 mm
0.3kg
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Table of Contents
- Editor's preface
- Preface
- List of maps and diagrams
- List of plates
- Part I. Introduction: The Pre-Domesday Fenland:
- 1. Note on Roman literary evidence
- Part II. Occupations:
- 2. Marsh production
- 3. Agricultural activity
- 4. Meadow, pasture and turbary
- 5. Note on the Crowland siputes
- Part III. Communications:
- 6. Fen waterways
- 7. Fen causeways
- Part IV. The Changing Prosperity of the Fenland:
- 8. Domesday statistics
- 9. Fourteenth-century statistics
- 10. Two hundred and fifty years' change
- 11. The social consequences of Fen economy
- Part V. The Care of Banks and Channels:
- 12. Complaints and disputes
- 13. The commission of sewers
- 14. The fifteenth century
- Sources and bibliography
- Appendix: report of a commission of sewers held at Wisbech in 1438
- Index.
