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Champion: The Making and Unmaking of the English Midland Landscape

Champion: The Making and Unmaking of the English Midland Landscape

Williamson, Tom

Hardcover

Business GeneralMedieval & Renaissance HistoryArchaeology

ISBN10: 0859898687
ISBN13: 9780859898683
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Apr 19 2013
Pages: 252
Weight: 2.80
Height: 1.20 Width: 7.10 Depth: 10.20
Language: English

Champion: The pattern of nucleated settlements and extensive open fields most commonly found within the landscape of the Midlands.

This book presents a radical reinterpretation of the origins of villages and open fields, and their development in the late medieval and post-medieval periods, in the Midland, 'champion' areas of England. Most landscape historians believe that villages were created in the middle or later Saxon periods through the 'nucleation' of a formerly dispersed pattern of settlement, that many villages were initially laid out as planned, regular settlements and that open fields probably came into existence at the same time. Re-examination and mapping of the data suggests 'nucleation' is a myth, 'village planning' an illusion and open fields were created, at least in their classic, 'regular' forms, only in the eleventh or twelfth centuries.

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