TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kilby,Susan
TI  - Peasant perspectives on the Medieval landscape: a study of three communities 
T2  - Studies in regional and local history
SN  - 9781912260300
AV  - DA185 .P437 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Hatfield, Hertfordshire
PB  - University Of Hertfordshire Press
KW  - Peasants
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Front Cover --; Title Page --; Half Title --; Copyrigt --; Dedication --; Contents --; List of figures --; List of tables --; General Editor's preface --; Preface and acknowledgements --; Abbreviations --; 1. Introduction --; Geographic scope --; Elton, Huntingdonshire --; Castor, Northamptonshire --; Lakenheath, Suffolk --; Sources --; 2. Understanding the seigneurial landscape --; From inclusive to exclusive? Seigneurial perceptions of rural settlement in the later Anglo-Saxon period --; Conspicuous display and veiled privacy: from the Norman Conquest to the Black Death --; 3. Ordering the landscape; Organising the landscape of the medieval vill: seigneurial and peasant zones --; Encountering the built environment: rural peasant dwellings --; Delineating peasant space within the medieval manor --; Off the beaten track: the hidden morphology of the rural landscape --; 4. The unseen landscape --; Understanding topographical bynames --; Knowing your place: contrasting peasant landscapes within medieval manors? --; Mapping topographical bynames: Norman Cross hundred --; Aboveton: from indicator of place to socially constructed landscape; Mapping topographical bynames: Huntingdonshire --; the bigger picture --; Conclusions: personal status and topographical bynames --; 5. Naming the landscape --; Reassessing minor medieval landscape names --; Ordering field and furlong --; Distinguishing field and furlong --; The natural environment --; The supernatural environment --; Looking backward: naming the landscape --; The dynamics of landscape naming: cultural names --; 6. The remembered landscape --; Beyond taxonomy: the secret life of the fields --; 7. The economic landscape --; The rural environment as an economic resource: the demesne; The rural environment as an economic resource: peasant arable production --; Hidden peasant economies: fishing --; Hidden peasant economies: sheep farming --; Conclusions --; hidden peasant economies --; 8. Managing the landscape --; Waste not, want not: the natural world as a resource --; As common as muck: keeping the land in good heart --; Scientific fields: peasants and medieval science --; Ten men went to mow: managing medieval meadowland --; Mires, mores and meres: managing fenland resources --; A ditch in time: managing drainage and water resources --; Conclusions --; managing the landscape; 9. Conclusion --; Unveiling the peasant environment --; Living in rural communities --; Social status reconsidered --; Detecting peasant agency --; Memory and history in the rural landscape --; Making a living in rural England --; Peasant perspectives on the medieval landscape: concluding thoughts --; Bibliography --; Index; 2; b
N2  - This compelling new study forms part of a new wave of scholarship on the medieval rural environment in which the focus moves beyond purely socio-economic concerns to incorporate the lived experience of peasants. For too long, the principal intellectual approach has been to consider both subject and evidence from a modern, rationalist perspective and to afford greater importance to the social elite. New perspectives are needed. By re-evaluating the source material from the perspective of the peasant worldview, it is possible to build a far more detailed representation of rural peasant experience. Susan Kilby seeks to reconstruct the physical and socio-cultural environment of three contrasting English villages - Lakenheath in Suffolk, Castor in Northamptonshire and Elton in Huntingdonshire - between c. 1086 and c. 1348 and to use this as the basis for determining how peasants perceived their natural surroundings
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