Transhumance and the Making of Ireland's Uplands, 1550-1900 - Softcover

Elizabeth Gemmill,Jerome Bertram

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0902509802 ISBN 13: 9780902509801

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, 2024

Synopsis

WINNER: American Conference for Irish Studies Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book Commendation, Publication Prize in Irish History, NUI Awards 2021 SHORTLISTED: European Association of Archaeologists Book Prize 2023 This book is the first major interdisciplinary approach to the diversity and decline of transhumance in a northern European context. Focusing on Ireland from c.1550 to 1900, it shows that uplands were valuable resources which allowed tenant households to maintain larger herds of livestock and adapt to global economic trends. And it places the practice into its wider contexts, demonstrating that transhumance required highly organized systems of common grazing, and that the care of dairy cows amounted to a rite of passage for young women in many rural communities.

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About the Authors

ELIZABETH GEMMILL is an Associate Professor in History in the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Kellogg College. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her research interests are in later medieval social, economic, and ecclesiastical history.

The late JEROME BERTRAM was the leading authority of his generation on monumental brasses, indents and incised slabs; he was especially interested in epigraphy and had an impressive publication record on the topic. He died in 2019.

Edition details

• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0902509802
• ISBN 13: 9780902509801
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360