Peasant perspectives on the Medieval landscape : a study of three communities /

Peasant perspectives on the Medieval landscape : a study of three communities /

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Author / Creator:Kilby, Susan, author.
Imprint:Hatfield, Hertfordshire : University Of Hertfordshire Press, 2020.
Description:1 online resource : illustrations, maps.
Language:English
Series:Studies in regional and local history ; volume 17
Studies in regional and local history (Hertfordshire, England) ; v. 17.
Subject:
Peasants -- England -- History.
Agriculture.
Peasants.
Social conditions.
England -- Social conditions -- 1066-1485.
England -- Agriculture -- History.
Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485.
Great Britain.
England.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Map Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12594918
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ISBN:9781912260300
1912260301
9781912260201
9781912260218
1912260212
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 06, 2020).
Summary:This compelling new study forms part of a new wave of scholarship on the medieval rural environment in which the focus moves beyond purely socio-economic concerns to incorporate the lived experience of peasants. For too long, the principal intellectual approach has been to consider both subject and evidence from a modern, rationalist perspective and to afford greater importance to the social elite. New perspectives are needed. By re-evaluating the source material from the perspective of the peasant worldview, it is possible to build a far more detailed representation of rural peasant experience. Susan Kilby seeks to reconstruct the physical and socio-cultural environment of three contrasting English villages - Lakenheath in Suffolk, Castor in Northamptonshire and Elton in Huntingdonshire - between c. 1086 and c. 1348 and to use this as the basis for determining how peasants perceived their natural surroundings.
Other form:Original 1912260212 9781912260218

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