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Auteur(s) : McKerracher, Mark (1986-....)
Titre(s) : Farming transformed in Anglo-Saxon Englan [Texte imprimé] : agriculture in the long eighth century / Mark McKerracher
Publication : Oxford (GB) : Windgather Press, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VII-154 p.) : ill., cartes. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [146]-154
Texte remanié de : Thesis : University of Oxford : 2014. Titre de soutenance : Agricultural
development in mid saxon England
Anglo-Saxon farming has traditionally been seen as the wellspring of English agriculture,
setting the pattern for 1000 years to come - but it was more important than that.
A rich harvest of archaeological data is now revealing the untold story of agricultural
innovation, the beginnings of a revolution, in the age of Bede. Armed with a powerful
new dataset, Farming Transformed explores fundamental questions about the minutiae
of early medieval farming and its wider relevance. How old were sheep left to grow,
for example, and what pathologies did cattle sustain? What does wheat chaff have to
do with lordship and the market economy? What connects ovens in Roman Germany with
barley maltings in early medieval Northamptonshire? And just how interested were Saxon
nuns in cultivating the opium poppy? Farming Transformed is the first book to draw
together the variegated evidence of pollen, sediments, charred seeds, animal bones,
watermills, corn-drying ovens, granaries and stockyards on an extensive, regional
scale. The result is an inter-disciplinary dataset of unprecedented scope and size,
which reveals how cereal cultivation boomed, and new watermills, granaries and ovens
were erected to cope with - and flaunt - the fat of the land. As arable farming grew
at the expense of pasture, sheep and cattle came under closer management and lived
longer lives, yielding more wool, dairy goods, and traction power for ploughing. These
and other innovations are found to be concentrated at royal, aristocratic and monastic
centres, placing lordship at the forefront of agricultural innovation, and farming
as the force behind kingdom-formation and economic resurgence in the seventh and eighth
centuries
Sujet(s) : Agriculture -- Angleterre (GB) -- 8e siècle
Agriculture -- Aspect économique -- Bases de données -- Angleterre (GB) -- 8e siècle
Agriculture -- Angleterre (GB) -- 7e siècle
Agriculture -- Aspect économique -- Bases de données -- Angleterre (GB) -- 7e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
630.942 (23e éd.) = Agronomie, agriculture et techniques connexes - Angleterre
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781911188315 (br.)
EAN 9781911188315
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb457259296
Notice n° :
FRBNF45725929
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