Peasant Perceptions of Landscape: Ewelme Hundred, South Oxfordshire 500-1650

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• ISBN 10: 0192647911
• ISBN 13: 9780192647917
• Author: Stephen Mileson, Stuart Brookes

Peasant Perceptions of Landscape marks a change in the discipline of landscape history, as well as making a major contribution to the history of everyday life. Until now, there has been no sustained analysis of how ordinary medieval and early modern people experienced and perceived their material environment and constructed their identities in relation to the places where they lived. This volume provides exactly such an analysis by examining peasant

The study takes as its focus Ewelme hundred, a well-documented and archaeologically-rich area of lowland vale and hilly Chiltern wood-pasture comprising fourteen ancient parishes. The analysis draws on a range of sources including legal depositions and thousands of field-names and bynames preserved in largely unpublished deeds and manorial documents. Archaeology makes a major contribution, particularly for understanding the period before 900, but more generally in reconstructing the fabric of

Table contents:

1. Introduction

2. Geography and Sources

3. The Early to Middle Anglo-Saxon Period, 500–800

4. The Late Anglo-Saxon Period, 800–1100

5. The High Middle Ages, 1100–1350

6. The Late Middle Ages, 1350–1530

7. The Early Modern Period, 1530–1650

8. Conclusion

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