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Agriculture in the Middle Ages : Technology, Practice, and Representation / ed. by Del Sweeney.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1996Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) : 74 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812232820
  • 9781512807776
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.3/49/0940902 20
LOC classification:
  • S452
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- 1. Introduction -- PART I. Agricultural Development and Diffusion -- 2. Continuity and Discontinuity of Roman Agricultural Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages -- 3. The Development of Stockbreeding and Herding in Medieval Europe -- 4. Arab and European Agriculture in the Middle Ages: A Case of Restricted Diffusion -- 5. Ecology Versus Economics in Late Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth- Century English Agriculture -- PART II. Rural Society -- 6. Thunder and Hail over the Carolingian Countryside -- 7. Links Within the Village: Evidence from Fourteenth-Century Eastphalia -- 8. The Material Culture of the Peasantry in the Late Middle Ages: "Image" and "Reality" -- PART III. Literary Representations -- 9. "A thing most brutish": The Image of the Rustic in Old French Literature -- 10. Rusticus: Folk-Hero of Thirteenth-Century Picard Drama -- 11. The "Hungry Gap," Crop Failure, and Famine: The Fourteenth-Century Agricultural Crisis and Piers Plowman -- PART IV. Artistic Representations -- 12. "When Adam Delved": Laboring on the Land in English Medieval Art -- 13. The New Image of Peasants in Thirteenth-Century French Stained Glass -- 14. In Due Season: Farm Work in the Medieval Calendar Tradition -- 15. Afterword -- Selective Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: Explores the cultural framework within which changes in agricultural technology and economic organization occur and the ways in which changes in the social fabric influence attitudes toward rural work and the peasantry.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- 1. Introduction -- PART I. Agricultural Development and Diffusion -- 2. Continuity and Discontinuity of Roman Agricultural Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages -- 3. The Development of Stockbreeding and Herding in Medieval Europe -- 4. Arab and European Agriculture in the Middle Ages: A Case of Restricted Diffusion -- 5. Ecology Versus Economics in Late Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth- Century English Agriculture -- PART II. Rural Society -- 6. Thunder and Hail over the Carolingian Countryside -- 7. Links Within the Village: Evidence from Fourteenth-Century Eastphalia -- 8. The Material Culture of the Peasantry in the Late Middle Ages: "Image" and "Reality" -- PART III. Literary Representations -- 9. "A thing most brutish": The Image of the Rustic in Old French Literature -- 10. Rusticus: Folk-Hero of Thirteenth-Century Picard Drama -- 11. The "Hungry Gap," Crop Failure, and Famine: The Fourteenth-Century Agricultural Crisis and Piers Plowman -- PART IV. Artistic Representations -- 12. "When Adam Delved": Laboring on the Land in English Medieval Art -- 13. The New Image of Peasants in Thirteenth-Century French Stained Glass -- 14. In Due Season: Farm Work in the Medieval Calendar Tradition -- 15. Afterword -- Selective Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter

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Explores the cultural framework within which changes in agricultural technology and economic organization occur and the ways in which changes in the social fabric influence attitudes toward rural work and the peasantry.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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