作者

Susan Kilby（Research Fellow in the Institute for Name-Studies at the University of Nottingham）

出版社

‎University Of Hertfordshire Press(2020年9月)

丛书

Studies in Regional and Local History

简介

近年来学术界的一个新潮流是关注中世纪的农业环境，这项引人入胜的新研究就基于此，本书不仅关注中世纪农民的经济社会情况，也将农民们的实际生活环境纳入考量。作者以1086-1348年间的三个英格兰乡村为研究对象，试图重新勾勒其物质和社会文化环境，也借此说明农民们如何看待其周遭的自然环境。这项研究加深了我们原本对社会地位、乡村机构、农民的经济生活，以及集体和个体记忆的形成过程的理解，同时也纠正了人们对七百多年前环境关键因素的认知。

另附本书章节安排

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