Brookes Stuart (Senior Research Associate Senior Research Associate Ucl) - Peasant Perceptions Of Landscape Ewelme Hundred South Oxfordshire 500 - 1650 - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Peasant Perceptions of Landscape marks a change in the discipline of landscape history as well as making a major contribution to the history of everyday life. Until now there has been no sustained analysis of how ordinary medieval and early modern people experienced and perceived their material environment and constructed their identities in relation to the places where they lived. This volume provides exactly such an analysis by examining peasant perceptions in one geographical area over the long period from AD 500 to 1650. The study takes as its focus Ewelme hundred a well - documented and archaeologically - rich area of lowland vale and hilly Chiltern wood - pasture comprising fourteen ancient parishes. The analysis draws on a range of sources including legal depositions and thousands of field - names and bynames preserved in largely unpublished deeds and manorial documents. Archaeology makes a major contribution particularly for understanding the period before 900, but more generally in reconstructing the fabric of villages and the framework for inhabitants spatial practices and experiences. In its focus on the way inhabitants interacted with the landscape in which they worked prayed and socialised Peasant Perceptions of Landscape supplies a new history of the lives and attitudes of the bulk of the rural population who so seldom make their mark in traditional landscape analysis or documentary history.
Title: Peasant Perceptions Of Landscape Ewelme Hundred South Oxfordshire 500 - 1650
Author(s): Brookes Stuart (Senior Research Associate Senior Research Associate Ucl)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192894892
Pages: 384 Pages, Numerous Black And White And Colour Figures/Illustrations
Publication Date: 2/4/2022
Series: Medieval History and Archaeology
Category: Landscape Archaeology