The Foldcourse and East Anglian Agriculture and Landscape, 1100-1900

The Foldcourse and East Anglian Agriculture and Landscape, 1100-1900
Title The Foldcourse and East Anglian Agriculture and Landscape, 1100-1900 PDF eBook
Author John Belcher
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 215
Release 2020-12-18
Genre History
ISBN 1783275677

Download The Foldcourse and East Anglian Agriculture and Landscape, 1100-1900 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

First survey of one of the most important pre-modern farming systems, and its effects on society and landscape.

Territoriality and the Early Medieval Landscape

Territoriality and the Early Medieval Landscape
Title Territoriality and the Early Medieval Landscape PDF eBook
Author Stephen Rippon
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 407
Release 2022-04-05
Genre Anglo-Saxons
ISBN 1783276800

Download Territoriality and the Early Medieval Landscape Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

All communities have a strong sense of identity with the area in which they live, which for England in the early medieval period manifested itself in a series of territorial entities, ranging from large kingdoms down to small districts known as pagi or regiones. This book investigates these small early folk territories, and the way that they evolved into the administrative units recorded in Domesday, across an entire kingdom - that of the East Saxons (broadly speaking, what is now Essex, Middlesex, most of Hertfordshire, and south Suffolk). A wide range of evidence is drawn upon, including archaeology, written documents, place-names and the early cartographic sources. The book looks in particular at the relationship between Saxon immigrants and the native British population, and argues that initially these ethnic groups occupied different parts of the landscape, until a dynasty which assumed an Anglo-Saxon identity achieved political ascendency (its members included the so-called "Prittlewell Prince", buried with spectacular grave-good in Prittlewell, near Southend-on- Sea in southern Essex). Other significant places discussed include London, the seat of the first East Saxon bishopric, the possible royal vills at Wicken Bonhunt near Saffron Walden and Maldon, and St Peter's Chapel at Bradwell-on-Sea, one of the most important surviving churches from the early Christian period.

Cottage Gardens and Gardeners in the East of Scotland, 1750-1914

Cottage Gardens and Gardeners in the East of Scotland, 1750-1914
Title Cottage Gardens and Gardeners in the East of Scotland, 1750-1914 PDF eBook
Author Catherine Rice
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 308
Release 2021
Genre Cottage gardens
ISBN 1783276622

Download Cottage Gardens and Gardeners in the East of Scotland, 1750-1914 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This pioneering study tells the story of the emergence of rural workers' gardens during a period of unprecedented economic and social change in the most dynamic and prosperous region of Scotland. Much criticised as weed-infested, badly cultivated and disfigured by the dung heap before the cottage door, eighteenth-century cottage gardens produced only the most basic food crops. But the paradox is that Scottish professional gardeners at this time were highly prized and sought after all over the world. And by the eve of the First World War Scottish cottage gardeners were raising flowers, fruit and a wide range of vegetables, and celebrating their successes at innumerable flower shows. This book delves into the lives of farm servants, labourers, weavers, miners and other workers living in the countryside, to discover not only what vegetables, fruit and flowers they grew, and how they did it, but also how poverty, insecurity and long and arduous working days shaped their gardens. Workers' cottage gardens were also expected to comply with the needs of landowners, farmers and employers and with their expectations of the industrious cottager. But not all the gardens were muddy cabbage and potato patches and not all the gardeners were ignorant or unenthusiastic. The book also tells the stories of the keen gardeners who revelled in their pretty plots, raised prize exhibits for village shows and, in a few cases, found gardening to be a stepping-stone to scientific exploration.

New Perspectives on the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’

New Perspectives on the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’
Title New Perspectives on the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’ PDF eBook
Author Helena Hamerow
Publisher Liverpool University Press
Pages 308
Release 2022-11-01
Genre History
ISBN 1802079041

Download New Perspectives on the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’ Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

An Open Access edition is available on the LUP and OAPEN websites. Across Europe, the early medieval period saw the advent of new ways of cereal farming which fed the growth of towns, markets and populations, but also fuelled wealth disparities and the rise of lordship. These developments have sometimes been referred to as marking an ‘agricultural revolution’, yet the nature and timing of these critical changes remain subject to intense debate, despite more than a century of research. The papers in this volume demonstrate how the combined application of cutting-edge scientific analyses, along with new theoretical models and challenges to conventional understandings, can reveal trajectories of agricultural development which, while complementary overall, do not indicate a single period of change involving the extension of arable, the introduction of the mouldboard plough, and regular crop rotation. Rather, these phenomena become evident at different times and in different places across England throughout the period, and rarely in an unambiguously ‘progressive’ fashion. Presenting innovative bioarchaeological research from the ground-breaking Feeding Anglo-Saxon England project, along with fresh insights into ploughing technology, brewing, the nature of agricultural revolutions, and farming practices in Roman Britain and Carolingian Europe, this volume is a critical new contribution to environmental archaeology and medieval studies in England and beyond. Contributors: Amy Bogaard; Hannah Caroe; Neil Faulkner; Emily Forster; Helena Hamerow; Matilda Holmes; Claus Kropp; Lisa Lodwick; Mark McKerracher; Nicolas Schroeder; Elizabeth Stroud; Tom Williamson.

Charles Bridgeman (c. 1685-1738)

Charles Bridgeman (c. 1685-1738)
Title Charles Bridgeman (c. 1685-1738) PDF eBook
Author Susan Haynes
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 271
Release 2023-12-12
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1837651175

Download Charles Bridgeman (c. 1685-1738) Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

An examination of the garden plans of eighteenth-century landscape architect Charles Bridgeman, shedding light on his artistic vision and contributions to English garden history.Charles Bridgeman was a popular and highly successful landscape architect in the first part of the eighteenth century. He was Royal Gardener to George I and George II, designing the gardens at Kensington Palace for them and working for many of the ruling Whig elite, including Sir Robert Walpole at Houghton Hall in Norfolk. His landscapes were audacious and monumental, but he is barely known outside the world of academic garden history; most of his gardens have disappeared, changed out of all recognition to chime with later tastes shaped by Lancelot Brown's vision of a more "natural" landscape, or buried under housing developments and golf courses; and there is little archaeological or written evidence of his work.This book aims to redress this injustice and rescue his legacy. It draws on the only significant body of evidence which survived him: an extensive but wildly heterogenous corpus of garden plans. Close examination of them reveals an artistic vision heavily influenced by the late seventeenth-century geometric garden but deeply rooted in the "genius of the place", and working methods that include a proto-business model which prefigures the gentleman improvers who followed him. The volume brings him from obscurity to demonstrate his skill as an artist, a manipulator of space on a grand scale and a consummate practitioner, a deserved member of the canon of famous and revered English landscape gardeners.vived him: an extensive but wildly heterogenous corpus of garden plans. Close examination of them reveals an artistic vision heavily influenced by the late seventeenth-century geometric garden but deeply rooted in the "genius of the place", and working methods that include a proto-business model which prefigures the gentleman improvers who followed him. The volume brings him from obscurity to demonstrate his skill as an artist, a manipulator of space on a grand scale and a consummate practitioner, a deserved member of the canon of famous and revered English landscape gardeners.vived him: an extensive but wildly heterogenous corpus of garden plans. Close examination of them reveals an artistic vision heavily influenced by the late seventeenth-century geometric garden but deeply rooted in the "genius of the place", and working methods that include a proto-business model which prefigures the gentleman improvers who followed him. The volume brings him from obscurity to demonstrate his skill as an artist, a manipulator of space on a grand scale and a consummate practitioner, a deserved member of the canon of famous and revered English landscape gardeners.vived him: an extensive but wildly heterogenous corpus of garden plans. Close examination of them reveals an artistic vision heavily influenced by the late seventeenth-century geometric garden but deeply rooted in the "genius of the place", and working methods that include a proto-business model which prefigures the gentleman improvers who followed him. The volume brings him from obscurity to demonstrate his skill as an artist, a manipulator of space on a grand scale and a consummate practitioner, a deserved member of the canon of famous and revered English landscape gardeners.lator of space on a grand scale and a consummate practitioner, a deserved member of the canon of famous and revered English landscape gardeners.

Common Land in Britain

Common Land in Britain
Title Common Land in Britain PDF eBook
Author Angus J L Winchester
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 330
Release 2022-09-27
Genre
ISBN 1783277432

Download Common Land in Britain Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The first authoritative survey of the history of common land in Great Britain from the medieval period to present day.

Erasmus Darwin's Gardens

Erasmus Darwin's Gardens
Title Erasmus Darwin's Gardens PDF eBook
Author Paul A. Elliott
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 365
Release 2021
Genre Agriculture
ISBN 178327610X

Download Erasmus Darwin's Gardens Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This first full study of Erasmus Darwin's gardening, horticulture and agriculture shows he was as keen a nature enthusiast as his grandson Charles, and demonstrates the ways in which his landscape experiences transformed his understanding of nature.