Agriculture in the Middle Ages

Technology, Practice, and Representation

Buch | Hardcover

416 Seiten

1995
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-0-8122-3282-0 (ISBN)

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Explores the cultural framework within which changes in agricultural technology and economic organization occur and the ways in which changes in the social fabric influence attitudes toward rural work and the peasantry.

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1. Introduction

PART I AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND DIFFUSION

2. Continuity and Discontinuity of Roman Agricultural Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages

3. The Development of Stockbreeding and Herding in Medieval Europe

4. Arab and European Agriculture in the Middle Ages: A Case of Restricted Diffusion

5. Ecology Versus Economics in Late Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-Century English Agriculture

PART II RURAL SOCIETY

6. Thunder and Hail over the Carolingian Countryside

7. Links Within the Village: Evidence from Fourteenth-Century Eastphalia

8. The Material Culture of the Peasantry in the Late Middle Ages: "Image" and "Reality"

PART III LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS

9. "A thing most brutish": The Image of the Rustic in Old French Literature

10. Rusticus: Folk-Hero of Thirteenth-Century Picard Drama

11. The "Hungry Gap," Crop Failure, and Famine: The Fourteenth-Century Agricultural Crisis and "Piers Plowman"

PART IV ARTISTIC REPRESENTATIONS

12. "When Adam Delved": Laboring on the Land in English Medieval Art

13. The New Image of Peasants in Thirteenth-Century French Stained Glass

14. In Due Season: Farm Work in the Medieval Calendar Tradition

15. Afterword

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.11.1995
Reihe/Serie	Anniversary Collection
Zusatzinfo	74 illus.
Verlagsort	Pennsylvania
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-8122-3282-8 / 0812232828
ISBN-13	978-0-8122-3282-0 / 9780812232820
Zustand	Neuware