Overview

The idea that the past was an era with long periods of little or no change is almost certainly false. Change has always affected human society. Some of the catalysts for change were exogenous and lay in natural transformations, such as climate change or plant and animal diseases. Others came from endogamous processes, such as demographic change and the resulting alterations in demographic pressure. They might be produced by economic changes in the agrarian economy such as crop- or stock-breeding or better agricultural husbandry systems with the resultant greater harvests. Equally, they might be from technological developments in industry and manufacturing affecting traditional forms of production. We should also note changes in ideology within society and even between principal groups, such as secular and ecclesiastical bodies. We need to consider the impact of politics and warfare. These innovations, transmissions and transformations had profound spatial, economic and social impacts on the environments, landscapes and habitats evident at micro-, meso- and macro-levels. Changes, alterations and modifications may affect how land was worked, how it was organized, and the nature of buildings and rural complexes (homesteads, work buildings, villages, monasteries, towns and landscapes). The authors of the 36 papers focus in particular on transmissions and transformations in a longue durée perspective, such as from early medieval times (c. 500AD) to the High Middle Ages (c. 1000/1200 AD), and from medieval to post-medieval and early modern times (1700). The case studies include the shrinking and disappearance of settlements; changes in rule and authority; developments in the agrarian economy; the shift from handwork to manufacturing; demographic change.

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Author:   Niall Brady ,  Claudia Theune
Publisher:   Sidestone Press
Imprint:   Sidestone Press
Volume:   12
ISBN:  

9789088908064

ISBN 10:   9088908060
Pages:   446
Publication Date:   09 September 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Niall Brady, Claudia Theune Introduction Niall Brady, Claudia Theune Mountain communities in the Catalan Pyrenees: 25 years of archaeological research Walter Alegria-Tejedor, Marta Sancho-Planas, Maria Soler-Sala Endogenous and exogenous characteristics of settlement development of an early medieval settlement at Sursee (Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland) Christian auf der Maur Not so dark centuries: changes and continuities in the Catalan landscape (6th-12th centuries) Jordi Bolos Rural settlement in later medieval Ireland through the lens of deserted settlements Niall Brady Rural settlement and economy in Campania (South Italy) between Late Antiquity and Middle Ages Nicola Busino Deciphering transformations of rural settlement and land-use patterns in central Adriatic Italy between the 6th and the 12th centuries AD Francesca Carboni, Frank Vermeulen Change and continuity in rural early medieval Hispania. Comparative multidisciplinary approach to the countrysides of Egitania (Idanha-A-Velha, Portugal) and Emerita (Merida, Spain) Tomas Cordero Ruiz Beyond the Borders: transformations, acculturation and adaptation between Latium and Campania during the Lombard Period (6th - 8th c.) Cristina Corsi Silent witness: the deserted medieval borough of Newtown Jerpoint, Co Kilkenny, Ireland Ian Doyle, Tadhg O'Keeffe Kopaniec in the Izera Mountains. An example of unusual transformation of a village after the Thirty Years' War period in Silesia Pawel Duma, Jerzy Piekalski, Anna Luczak Counting heads. Post-Roman population decline in the Rhine-Meuse delta (the Netherlands) and the need for more evidence-based reconstructions Bert Groenewoudt, Rowin J. van Lanen Land-organisational changes in rural Denmark from AD 200-1200 Jesper Hansen Settlement abandonment in Dartmoor (England): Retreat of margins reassessed and difficult market accessibility as important factors of settlement vulnerability Lukas Holata The mid-6th century crises and their impacts on human activity and settlements in south-eastern Norway Frode Iversen, Steinar Solheim The transformation of rural settlements in Slavonia in the period from the 12th to the 15th centuries Andrej Janes, Ivana Hirschler Maric Socioeconomic Mobility and property transmission among peasants: the Cheb region (Czech Republic) in the Late Middle Ages Tomas Klir Mendicant friaries and the changing landscapes of late medieval Ireland: The foundations of the Augustinian friars in Co. Mayo and Sligo Anne-Julie Lafaye Late medieval transformation of rural landscape - model of melioratio terrae on the examples of the land of Nysa-Otmuchow and the Kaczawskie Foothills, Silesia, Poland Maria Legut-Pintal New evidence for the transformative impact of depopulation on currently inhabited medieval rural settlements from archaeological test-pit excavation in England Carenza Lewis One land, Two peasantries: Moriscos and old Christians in the Upper Genal Valley, Malaga (16th-18th C.) Esteban Lopez-Garcia, Ignacio Diaz, Felix Retamero Transformation and continuity in the Wexford countryside Breda Lynch Rural landscapes of north-eastern Rus' in transition: From the large unfortified settlements of the Viking Age to medieval villages Nikolaj Makarov The Anglo-Scottish western march: A landscape in transition Caron Newman Change in rural settlement in Eastern Central Europe from the early to the later Middle Ages Elisabeth Nowotny Assembling in times of transitions - the case of cooking-pit sites Marie Odegaard Post-roman land-use transformations: analysing the early medieval countryside in Castelo de Vide (Portugal) Sara Prata The Hungarian conquest and the contemporary settlement structures. Research into 9th - 10th century archaeological finds from the Pest Plain Tibor Akos Racz Transformations of settlements for agricultural production between Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages in Italy Marcello Rotili Settlements, communication and authority. Transforming spatial structure in the Danube-Tisza Interfluve Region in the 15-17th century Edit Sarosi Late medieval deserted settlements in Southern Germany as a consequence of long-term landscape transformations Rainer Schreg Crisis or transition? Risk and resilience during the late medieval agrarian crisis Eva Svensson No smoke without fire. Burning and changing settlements in 10th-century central-northern Portugal Catarina Tente Climate change and economic development in the Alps during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period Claudia Theune Breaking old ties. Settlement relocation in North-Brabant (NL) at the dawn of the Late Middle Ages Johan Verspay The impact of the Christian conquest on the agrarian areas in the low Ebro valley. The case of Xerta (Spain) Antoni Virgili, Helena Kirchner Medieval settlement dynamics in peatland reclamations in the Western, Central and Northern Netherlands Jan van Doesburg

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Niall Brady is the founding director of the Archaeological Diving Company, Ireland’s premier maritime archaeological consultancy, and between 2002 and 2010 he was project director of the Discovery Programme’s Medieval Rural Settlement Project. Main research fields: landscape archaeology, medieval settlement, agrarian economy and technology, maritime archaeology, industrial archaeology. Prof. Claudia Theune is Professor for Historical Archaeology at the University of Vienna with a special/great/deep interest in contemporary archaeology. She studied Prehistoric and early medieval Archaeology, social Anthropology, Christian Archaeology and geology at the Universities in Marburg and Bonn, Germany (1979-1988). She worked as a scientific researcher at the University of Marburg. In 1994 she became Assistant Professor at the Department of Prehistoric and Medieval Archaeology at the Humboldt-University, Berlin. Since 2007 she was appointed Full Professor for Medieval and Historical Archaeology at the Department of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology, University of Vienna.

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