The Origins of Open Field Agriculture: 45 (Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367180359 ISBN 13: 9780367180355

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Originally published in 1981, The Origins of Open Field Agriculture looks at the problems connected with open field agriculture – the origins of strip cultivation, the three-field system, the adaptation of ‘Celtic’ fields, and the development of ploughing techniques. The book looks at the challenges to traditional ideas on the origins of settlement and their associated economy, and casts new light on understandings of village development. The book suggests that conventional views of the nucleated village, in the midst of open field strips as a product of the Anglo-Saxon migration, is no longer tenable. The book brings together the work of distinguished archaeologists, historians, and historical geographers and opens up a new perspective on the early development of medieval agriculture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367180359
• ISBN 13: 9780367180355
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 258
• Editor: Rowley Trevor