Harold Fox

Dartmoor's Alluring Uplands

Transhumance and Pastoral Management in the Middle Ages

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A striking and famous feature of the English landscape, Dartmoor (in the southwest of the country) is a beautiful place, with a sense of wildness and mystery. But in the Middle Ages intensive practical use was made of its resources: its extensive moorlands provided summer pasture for thousands of cattle from the Devon lowlands, which flowed in a seasonal tide, up in the spring and down in the autumn. This book describes, for the first time, the social organization and farming practices associated with that annual transfer of livestock. It presents evidence for a previously unsuspected Anglo-Saxon period of transhumance, by which the cattle's… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Tompkins, Matthew (Hrsg.) / Dyer, Christopher (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-85989-864-5
EAN: 9780859898645
Produktnummer: 11146079
Verlag: University of Exeter Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Masse: H25.2 cm x B17.9 cm x D2.5 cm 784 g
Gewicht: 784
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

The late Harold Fox was born and brought up in South Devon, and was Professor of Social and Landscape History at the Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester. He was a recognised authority on late-medieval landscape, agrarian and social history, particularly in the South-West and Midlands, and had served as president of the Medieval Settlement Research Group, chairman of the Society for Landscape Studies, vice-president of the English Place-Names Society and president of the Devon History Society. Sadly he died before completing the final stages of this book, but two colleagues from the University of Leicester's Centre for English Local History have brought it to the point of publication. Matthew Tompkins is Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester. Christopher Dyer is Emeritus Professor at the Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester.