Food supply, demand and trade. Aspects of the economic relationship between town and countryside (Middle Ages - nineteenth Century). Book introduction

Cruyningen, Piet van; Thoen, Erik

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“…Only through gifts of (already reclaimed) land, or when the peasants ran into financial difficulties, could they take over the initiative or create larger demesne centers, or even priories. Although active support from institutions and feudal lords most likely already dates from an earlier period, it was only apparent in Flanders since the twelfth century (Verhulst, 1995: 38), from the later middle ages in Zealand Flanders (van Cruyningen, 2012), and still later in the northern part of the Netherlands (XXX) that real entrepreneurs (private persons, institutions, lay lords) played a larger part in the embankments and that large scale embankment initiatives were taken. In particular, from the late thirteenth century onwards we can see more and more burghers of towns investing in the coastal rural estates, including peat digging centers (Thoen, 1988).…”

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Clio defeating Neptune: a pyrrhic victory? Men and their influence on the evolution of coastal landscapes in the North Sea area

Thoen¹

2013

Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area

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In this article I tried to illuminate some of the most important aspects about the way human communities have influenced the natural coastal eco-system, often with disastrous long term results. It focuses especially on the human influence during the Middle Ages and the Old Regime.In its conclusion, it highlights arguments for a huge regional and temporal diversity of evolutions, since human influence was not everywhere identical. Moreover, because human activity often triggered natural phenomena and vice versa, and because we know from recent research (see e.g. Weerts and the many other articles in this volume) that natural phenomena causing changes in marine environments were also much more regionally different compared to what was believed some decades ago (see a state of the art in 1980: Verhulst and Gottschalk, 1980), it is logical that the regional component is crucial in the explanation of the evolution of coastal landscapes.

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Clio defeating Neptune: a pyrrhic victory? Men and their influence on the evolution of coastal landscapes in the North Sea area

Thoen¹

2013

Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area

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“…The large number of important towns and growing population of city dwellers had a strong impact on the rural economy, landscapes and settlements, especially during the Great Reclamation Period (10–13th century). The increased demand for food, combustibles and construction materials induced the need for intensified and systematic reclamations of forests and waste‐lands ( wastinae ), made possible by changing political circumstances and rural development (Thoen, ; van Cruyningen & Thoen, ; Verhulst, ). In order to organize these reclamations, the counts and other landlords were actively involved by planting settlements ab nihilo.…”

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Lost but revived. Revisiting the medieval village of Nieuw‐Roeselare (Flanders) using large‐scale frequency‐domain multi‐receiver EMI and landscape archaeological prospection

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2020

Archaeological Prospection

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During the 10th to 13th centuries, the rural settlement landscapes of the County of Flanders underwent major changes. Complex interactions between urbanization, growing comital power, demographic changes and rural development formed the basis for intensified reclamations of the landscape. Based on historical research, the ab nihilo plantation of grouped rural settlements by the counts and other landlords played an important role in the organization and systematization of these reclamations. To date, however, archaeological attention for these grouped settlements is scarce, mainly due to Flanders' build‐up and urbanized character. This article describes the renewed cross‐disciplinary landscape archaeological research at the site of the lost village of Nieuw‐Roeselare (northern East Flanders), which was the first medieval village to be partly excavated in Flanders between 1967 and 1979. Believed to have been planted in 1241 and lost to floods in 1375, little is known historically about the site nor does the modern‐day polder landscape show any remnants of a former settlement. Now, a large‐scale cross‐disciplinary prospection comprising 35 ha of frequency‐domain multi‐receiver electromagnetic induction (EMI), oblique aerial photography, augering, pseudo‐two‐dimensional tomography and site specific artefact‐accurate field walking, allowed to define the settlement's full extent, clarify its geographical context and identify its morphology as a planted settlement in the context of the medieval landscape reclamations.

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Food supply, demand and trade. Aspects of the economic relationship between town and countryside (Middle Ages - nineteenth Century). Book introduction

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Clio defeating Neptune: a pyrrhic victory? Men and their influence on the evolution of coastal landscapes in the North Sea area

Clio defeating Neptune: a pyrrhic victory? Men and their influence on the evolution of coastal landscapes in the North Sea area

Lost but revived. Revisiting the medieval village of Nieuw‐Roeselare (Flanders) using large‐scale frequency‐domain multi‐receiver EMI and landscape archaeological prospection

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