Feeding Medieval England
A Long ?Agricultural Revolution?, 700?1300
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 November 2025
- ISBN 9780198878520
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 246x189 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
The population of England grew steeply in the Middle Ages, especially between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. This volume investigates how medieval farmers managed to produce the large harvests needed to sustain this growth, growth that in turn fuelled a major expansion of towns and markets.
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The population of England grew steeply in the Middle Ages, especially between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. This volume investigates how medieval farmers managed to produce the large harvests needed to sustain this growth, growth that in turn fuelled a major expansion of towns and markets. New evidence is presented for the development of the medieval farming regimes that shaped the English landscape in ways still visible today.
Medieval farming is a contentious topic, not least because of the different approaches taken by historians, archaeologists and geographers and no consensus has been reached about the cultivation regimes that underpinned medieval cereal production. This volume presents a new perspective on this question, based on the results of a project that analysed the remains of medieval crops, arable weeds, livestock and pollen from hundreds of excavations. The new evidence that this generated reveals the conditions in which medieval crops were grown and how land use changed between the late Roman period and the Black Death. The authors relate the results to archaeological and written evidence for farms and farming, bringing an ecological perspective to the debate about the so-called medieval 'agricultural revolution'. The 'cerealisation' of England emerges as a regionally varied process lasting several centuries, whose overall impact was nevertheless revolutionary.
Table of Contents:
An 'Agricultural Revolution' in the Making
Materials and Methods
The Intensity of Cultivation: Soil Fertility and the Expansion of Arable
Crop Rotation and Seasonal Sowing
The Spread of the Mouldboard Plough: Draught Cattle and Disturbed Ground
Agricultural Land Use, c.AD 300-1500
A Long 'Agricultural Revolution'
