The Ineffectiveness of Lordship in England, 1200 1400

Dyer, Christopher

doi:10.1093/pastj/gtm022

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“… In many parts of western Europe, the waning of serfdom coupled with the effects of the Black Death created a host of newfound freedoms for previously repressed rural communities. Not so in the western Betuwe, however. Despite the collapse of the manorial system, the powerful former manorial lords and large ecclesiastical institutions maintained their dominance over landownership distribution – property structures were entrenched over the long term.…”

Section: Social Distribution Of Landownership In the Western Betuwe mentioning

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The impact of land accumulation and consolidation on population trends in the pre-industrial period: two contrasting cases in the Low Countries

Curtis

2014

Hist Res

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From the late middle ages onwards, many regions of western Europe experienced heightened inequality in the distribution of land via consolidation of property in the hands of interest groups. What happened to those unfortunate rural people who lost their land to wealthier or more powerful interest groups? Commonly a connection has been drawn between land accumulation and population decline or stagnation in the countryside, yet this outcome was not always inevitable, as demonstrated in this article. While land consolidation was sometimes the motor setting in motion outward migration to the cities, for example, this comparative study shows that some rural societies were better ‘set up’ to retain their landless populations than others.

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Section: Social Distribution Of Landownership In the Western Betuwe mentioning

confidence: 89%

The impact of land accumulation and consolidation on population trends in the pre-industrial period: two contrasting cases in the Low Countries

Curtis

2014

Hist Res

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“…The inhabitants of the medieval countryside created their own social worlds in response to existing structures, beliefs and environmental conditions, and, cumulatively, the decisions they made were crucial to landscape change. Even at what was in many respects the nadir of their freedom in the thirteenth century, peasants were far from being the pawns of all-powerful lords or empty receptacles for elite ideology (Hanawalt 1986;Bourin & Durand 2000;Dyer 2007). The outlook of medieval country dwellers was not the same as that of their rulers, and it was also very different from that of their modern successors.…”

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The South Oxfordshire Project: perceptions of landscape, settlement and society,c. 500–1650

Mileson¹

2012

Landscape History

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Historians and archaeologists are increasingly interested in moving beyond landscape reconstruction and economics to investigate how past inhabitants perceived their environment. This reflects the subject's intrinsic interest and an awareness of the importance of decisions made by ordinary people in shaping the development of the countryside. However, the evidence available makes it difficult to uncover mentalities and attitudes. To date, most attention has been paid to particular features which seem to say most about self-perception and beliefs, but the greatest advances will arguably be made by studying the landscape as a whole. This article explains the approach to popular perceptions being adopted by 'The South Oxfordshire Project', an interdisciplinary analysis of fourteen parishes encompassing lowland clay vales and Chilterns wood-pasture from the early Middle Ages to the mid seventeenth century.

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Examining Temporality and Difference: an Intensive Approach to Understanding Medieval Rural Settlement

Jervis

2022

J Archaeol Method Theory

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A new theoretical approach to medieval rural settlement, built on the concept of intensity, is proposed. It is argued that analysing settlements as intensive spaces creates new opportunities to explore the emergence of difference in medieval lived experience. The approach is intended to overcome the challenges posed by approaches to medieval architecture framed by binary divisions (e.g. inside/outside). Drawing on posthuman thought, it is argued that such divisions constrain the understanding of how and why difference emerged in the past. The paper advances this approach through its application to the study of house construction and domestic economy in the medieval village of Hangleton, England. It is proposed that difference emerges as everyday practices are performed in constantly changing material environments, generating situationally grounded but varied experiences of rurality. Rather than being subject to macro-scale economic processes, this approach allows us to understand historical change as a patchwork of localised interactions which overflowed the bounds of communities or regions.

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The Ineffectiveness of Lordship in England, 1200 1400

Cited by 22 publications

References 38 publications

The impact of land accumulation and consolidation on population trends in the pre-industrial period: two contrasting cases in the Low Countries

The impact of land accumulation and consolidation on population trends in the pre-industrial period: two contrasting cases in the Low Countries

The South Oxfordshire Project: perceptions of landscape, settlement and society,c. 500–1650

Examining Temporality and Difference: an Intensive Approach to Understanding Medieval Rural Settlement

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