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Tradition and Transformation in Anglo-Saxon England: Archaeology, Common Rights and Landscape
Author(s): Susan Oosthuizen (Author)
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date: 9 May 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 264 pages
- ISBN-10: 1472507274
- ISBN-13: 9781472507273
Book Description
The results suggest a new paradigm: the collective organisation of agricultural resources originated many centuries, perhaps millennia, before Germanic migrants reached Britain. In many places, medieval open fields and common rights over pasture preserved long-standing traditions for organising community assets. In central, southern England, a negotiated compromise between early medieval lords eager to introduce new managerial structures and communities as keen to retain their customary traditions of landscape organisation underpinned the emergence of nucleated settlements and distinctive, highly-regulated open fields.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This is an excellent book which is a valuable addition to the literature investigating the history and development of land use in the early medieval period … the book not only investigates a theme rarely discussed fully elsewhere but also offers a useful exposition of current ideas about land use development in early medieval England. –Landscape History, Della Hooke, The University of Birmingham, UK
This book joins a series of recent studies that have sought to explore the origins of landscapes characterized by open fields, and in particular asked why they became the dominant form of land management in England’s ‘central province’ but not elsewhere . . . Overall, this book presents a novel hypothesis. –Agricultural History Review, Stephen Rippon, University of Exeter
