Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

Av Debby Banham, Rosamond Faith, University of Cambridge) Banham, Debby (Affiliated Lecturer, Affiliated Lecturer, Dept of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Oxford) Faith, Rosamond (Visiting Fellow, Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, FAITH BANHAM, Faith Banham

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Farming was the basis of the wealth that made England worth invading, twice, in the eleventh century, while trade and manufacturing were insignificant by modern standards. In Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming, the authors employ a wide range of evidence to investigate how Anglo-Saxon farmers produced the food and other agricultural products that sustained English economy, society, and culture before the Norman Conquest. The first part of the volume draws on written and pictorial sources, archaeology, place-names, and the history of the English language to discover what crops and livestock people raised, and what tools and techniques were used to produce them. In part two, using a series of landscape studies - place-names, maps, and the landscape itself, the authors explore how these techniques might have been combined into working agricultural regimes in different parts of the country. A picture emerges of an agriculture that changed from an essentially prehistoric state in the sub-Roman period to what was recognisably the beginning of a tradition that only ended with the Second World War. Anglo-Saxon farming was not only sustainable, but infinitely adaptable to different soils and geology, and to a climate changing as unpredictably as it is today.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-09-25
Mått190 x 253 x 25 mm
Vikt892 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMedieval History and Archaeology
Antal sidor352
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199207947

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Debby Banham is a medieval historian who teaches in the Universities of Cambridge and London. During the 1970s she worked as an agricultural labourer, and when she arrived in Cambridge as a mature student, discovered that farming was the only thing she knew more about than the people who taught her. She has published Monasterialies indicia: the Old English monastic sign language, and Food and Drink in Anglo-Saxon England, as well as articles on Anglo-Saxon farming, diet and medicine, and monastic sign language.Rosamond Faith has taught medieval history at the universities of London, Cambridge, and Oxford, and is the author of The English Peasantry and the Growth of Lordship and many articles on English and French peasants, the rural economy, and the English landscape.

1. Introduction ; 2. Arable Farming in Anglo-Saxon England: The Crops ; 3. Arable Farming in Anglo-Saxon England: Tools and Techniques ; 4. Animal Husbandry in Anglo-Saxon England: The Livestock ; 5. Animal Husbandry in Anglo-Saxon England: How and Why Livestock was Kept ; 6. Farms in their Landscapes ; 7. Coasts and Riversides ; 8. Woodland ; 9. Downland ; 10. Moorland ; 11. Wolds ; 12. Continuities and Changes in Arable Husbandry ; 13. Conclusions

readers new to this subject area will especially appreciate the clear and fluently written prose that in less accomplished hands could easily have been encumbered by dense description and technical jargon ... the authors should be congratulated for a highly successful scholarly collaboration that has yielded what will no doubt come to be regarded as an essential text on Anglo-Saxon farming for many years to come.