Seasonal Settlement in the Medieval and Early Modern Countryside.
Title:
Seasonal Settlement in the Medieval and Early Modern Countryside.
Author:
Dixon, Piers.
ISBN:
9789464270112
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (372 pages)
Series:
Ruralia Ser.
Contents:
Intro -- Foreword -- Piers Dixon* and Claudia Theune** -- Seasonal settlement in the medieval and early modern countryside: introduction -- Piers Dixon* -- Too much environment and not enough history: the opportunities and challenges in researching medieval seasonal settlement in Atlantic Europe -- Richard Oram* -- Archaeological research on seasonal settlements in the Iberian Peninsula - an overview -- Catarina Tente* and Margarita Fernández Mier** -- Early medieval seasonal settlement and vertical transhumance in an agricultural landscape in Ainet, East Tyrol, Austria -- Elisabeth Waldhart* and Harald Stadler** -- A multidisciplinary approach to the relationship between seasonal settlements and multiple uses: case studies from southern Europe (15th-21st centuries) -- Anna Maria Stagno* -- Transhumance in medieval Serbia - examples from the Pešter Plateau and northwestern slopes of the Prokletije Mountains -- Uglješa Vojvodić* -- Archaeology of the commons: seasonal settlements in the Cantabrian Mountains -- Margarita Fernández Mier* and Pablo López Gómez** -- Plows, herds, and chafurdões. Vernacular architecture and land use in modern Castelo de Vide (Alto Alentejo, Portugal) -- Fabián Cuesta-Gómez* and Sara Prata** -- From the Roman villa rustica to the early modern farmer's grange - specific forms of seasonal settlements in eastern Croatia -- Pia Šmalcelj Novaković* and Anita Rapan Papeša** -- Transhumant settlement in medieval Wales: the hafod -- Rhiannon Comeau* and Bob Silvester** -- Imagining and identifying seasonal resource exploitation on the margins of medieval Ireland -- Eugene Costello* -- Entangled flexibility, adaptability, and seasonality in inland Scandinavia - the case of agrarian outland use and settlement colonisation -- Eva Svensson*.
Upland habitation at Castle Campbell in the Ochils, Scotland: a multifunctional historic landscape at Dollar Glen -- Daniel T. Rhodes* -- Palynological data on vegetation and land use change at a shieling ground on Ben Lawers, central Scottish Highlands, since the 13th century AD -- Richard Tipping* and Angus McEwen** -- From seasonal settlement to medieval villages? Early medieval settlement in the coastal region of Uusimaa, southern Finland -- Tuuli Heinonen* -- Building crannogs in the 9th-12th centuries AD in northern Scotland: an old tradition in a new landscape -- Michael J. Stratigos* and Gordon Noble** -- This piece of singular bad neighbourhood: the Mamlorn Forest Dispute, Scotland, c. 1730‑1744 -- Ian Maclellan* -- Settlements of the Pskov long barrow culture: seasonal, temporary, or short-lived? -- Elena Mikhaylova* -- Connections between transhumance and whisky distilling in Highland Scotland -- Darroch D.M. Bratt* -- Seasonal iron production in the mountains of Viking Age and medieval Scandinavia -- Kjetil Loftsgarden -- Markets and horse fighting sites in southern Norway - their socioeconomic significance, origin, and demise (AD 1300‑1800) -- Marie Ødegaard* -- Seasonality and logistics of the late medieval and early modern cattle trade in Hungary -- Laszlo Ferenczi* -- In which part of the year did iron smelting occur in the Drava valley? -- Ivan Valent*, Tajana Sekelj Ivančan** and Renata Šoštarić*** -- Albuen - The king's great herring market? -- Leif Plith Lauritsen -- Research on seasonality and seasonal settlements in the Czech lands - an overview (High and Late Middle Ages) -- Tomáš Klír* and Martin Janovský** -- Long-term patterns of nomadic and sedentary settlement in the Crowded Desert of NW Qatar -- José C. Carvajal López* -- 'We are always coming and going, like migratory birds'.
Diachronic changes in the seasonal settlement of Sámi reindeer herders in the Lake Gilbbesjávri region, northwestern Sápmi, AD 700‑1950 -- Oula Seitsonen -- Patterns of seasonal settlement of the forest Sami in Sweden -- Gudrun Norstedt* -- Dendrochronological research to track shepherds' summering in the Pyrenees -- Mireia Celma Martínez* and Elena Muntán Bordas** -- To browse and mast and meadow glades: new evidence of shieling practice from the Weald of South-East England -- Andrew Margetts* -- Seasonal agro-pastoral and craft-related temporary settlements in medieval and post-medieval Provence (France) -- Sylvain Burri* and Aline Durand** -- Seasonality, territories, and routes: pannage as a multi-component practice in medieval and early modern Hungary -- Csilla Zatykó* -- Blank Page.
Abstract:
For the first time seasonality is placed at the centre of the study of rural settlement. Using a Europe-wide approach, it provides a primer of examples, of techniques and of ideas for the identification and understanding of seasonal settlement. As such, it marks an important new step in the interpretation of the use of the countryside by historic communities linked to the annual passage of the year. The particular studies are introduced by an opening essay which draws wider conclusions about the study of seasonal settlement, followed by 31 papers by authors from all parts of Europe and beyond. By its very nature ephemeral, seasonal settlement in the medieval and early modern periods is less well researched than permanent settlement. It is often presumed that seasonal settlement is the result of transhumance, but it was only one facet of seasonal settlement. It was also necessitated by other forms of economic activity, such as fishing, charcoal-burning, or iron-smelting, including settlements of pastoralists such as nomads, drovers, herders as well as labourers' huts within the farming context. The season a settlement was occupied varied from one activity to another and from one place to another - summer is good for grazing in many mountainous areas, but winter proved best for some industrial processes. While upland and mountainous settlements built of stone are easily recognised, those that use wood and more perishable materials are less obvious. Despite this, the settlements of nomadic pastoralists in both tundra and desert or of fishermen in the Baltic region are nonetheless identifiable. Yet for all that definitive recognition of seasonal settlement is rarely possible on archaeological grounds alone. Although material remains can be of particular importance, generally it is the combination of documentary information, ethnography, geographical
context and palaeo-environmental data that provide frameworks for interpreting seasonal settlements.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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