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New Perspectives on the Medieval 'Agricultural Revolution': Crop, Stock and Furrow

New Perspectives on the Medieval 'Agricultural Revolution': Crop, Stock and Furrow

Hamerow, Helena
McKerracher, Mark

Paperback

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1802077235
ISBN13: 9781802077230
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jan 1 2023
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.45
Language: English

An Open Access edition is available on the LUP and OAPEN websites.

Across Europe, the early medieval period saw the advent of new ways of cereal farming which fed the growth of towns, markets and populations, but also fuelled wealth disparities and the rise of lordship. These developments have sometimes been referred to as marking an 'agricultural revolution', yet the nature and timing of these critical changes remain subject to intense debate, despite more than a century of research.

The papers in this volume demonstrate how the combined application of cutting-edge scientific analyses, along with new theoretical models and challenges to conventional understandings, can reveal trajectories of agricultural development which, while complementary overall, do not indicate a single period of change involving the extension of arable, the introduction of the mouldboard plough, and regular crop rotation. Rather, these phenomena become evident at different times and in different places across England throughout the period, and rarely in an unambiguously 'progressive' fashion.

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