Seasonal Settlement in the Medieval and Early Modern Countryside 1st Edition by Piers Dixon, Claudia Theune ISBN 9464270101 9789464270105

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ISBN 10: 9464270101

ISBN 13: 978-9464270105

Author:  Piers Dixon, Claudia Theune 

Seasonal Settlement in the Medieval and Early Modern Countryside 1st Edition: For the first time seasonality is placed at the center of the study of rural settlement. Using a Europe-wide approach, it provides a primer of examples, of techniques, and of ideas for the identification and understanding of seasonal settlement. As such, it marks an important new step in the interpretation of the use of the countryside by historic communities linked to the annual passage of the year. The particular studies are introduced by an opening essay which draws wider conclusions about the study of seasonal settlement, followed by 31 papers by authors from all parts of Europe and beyond.

By its very nature ephemeral, seasonal settlement in the medieval and early modern periods is less well researched than permanent settlement. It is often presumed that seasonal settlement is the result of transhumance, but it was only one facet of seasonal settlement. It was also necessitated by other forms of economic activity, such as fishing, charcoal-burning, or iron-smelting, including settlements of pastoralists such as nomads, drovers, herders, as well as laborers’ huts within the farming context. The season a settlement was occupied varied from one activity to another and from one place to another – summer is good for grazing in many mountainous areas, but winter proved best for some industrial processes. While upland and mountainous settlements built of stone are easily recognized, those that use wood and more perishable materials are less obvious. Despite this, the settlements of nomadic pastoralists in both tundra and desert or of fishermen in the Baltic region are nonetheless identifiable. Yet for all that definitive recognition of seasonal settlement is rarely possible on archaeological grounds alone. Although material remains can be of particular importance, generally it is the combination of documentary information, ethnography, geographical context, and palaeo-environmental data that provide frameworks for interpreting seasonal settlements.

 

Seasonal Settlement in the Medieval and Early Modern Countryside 1st Edition Table of contents:

SECTION ONE: SEASONAL SETTLEMENT AND MEDIEVAL ENVIRONMENT

• Seasonal settlement in rural archaeology as a research question
• Too much environment and not enough history: opportunities and challenges in researching seasonal settlement in Atlantic Europe

SECTION TWO: SEASONAL SETTLEMENT IN SOUTHERN EUROPE

• Archaeological research on seasonal settlement in the south-west part of Europe – an overview
• Archaeological research into seasonal settlement in a medieval and early modern countryside landscape in East-Tyrol, Austria
• A multi-disciplinary approach to the relationship between seasonal settlements and multiple uses: case studies from southern Europe (10th–21st Century)
• Transhumance in medieval Serbia
• Multi-functionality of grazing areas in the Cantabrian Mountains
• Ploughs, herds and chafurdões: vernacular architecture and land-use in modern Castelo de Vide (Alto Alentejo, Portugal)
• From Roman villa rustica to modern farmers’ grange – the specific way of seasonal settlements in eastern Croatia

SECTION THREE: SEASONAL SETTLEMENT IN NORTHERN AND EASTERN EUROPE

• Seasonal settlement in Wales
• Seasonal upland settlement as an indicator of ‘glocalisation’ in rural northern Europe, c.1350–1850
• Seasonal and/or permanent? Entangled flexibility in the Scandinavian forested mountains
• Upland habitation at Castle Campbell in the Ochils, Scotland: a multi-functional historic landscape at Dollar Glen
• Palynological data on vegetation and land use change at a shieling ground on Ben Lawers, Central Scottish Highlands, since the 13th century AD
• From seasonal settlement to medieval villages? The early medieval settlement in coastal region of Uusimaa, southern Finland
• Building crannogs in the 9th–12th centuries AD in northern Scotland: an old tradition in a new landscape
• ‘This piece of singular bad neighbourhood’: disputed upland grazing and deer preservation in Mamlorn Forest, Scotland 1730–1744
• Early medieval seasonal and temporary settlements in the forest zone of Eastern Europe: the culture of Pskov long barrows

SECTION FOUR: INDUSTRY, TRADE AND SEASONAL SETTLEMENT

• Whisky distilling in rural post-medieval Scotland
• Seasonal settlements and the production of iron in the Norwegian mountains
• Settlements by seasonal horse markets in inland Norway
• Seasonality and the logistics of late medieval and early modern cattle trade in Hungary
• Iron smelting in the Drava valley: seasonal activities
• Albuen, the king’s herring market, Denmark
• Seasonal activities and settlements in medieval and early modern Czech Lands

SECTION FIVE: HERDING AND NOMADISM

• Long-term patterns of nomadic and sedentary settlement in the crowded desert of north-west Qatar
• Seasonal settlement of the Sámi reindeer herders in northernmost Fennoscandia c.800–1950 AD
• Changes in seasonal settlement patterns of the forest Sami in Fennoscandia

SECTION SIX: WOODLANDS AND SEASONAL SETTLEMENT

• Dendrochronological research to track transhumance through shepherds’ woodcarving in the Pyrenees
• To browse and mast and meadow glades: seasonal settlement in the Weald of south-east England
• ‘Living in the woods, living on pastures’: a historical and archaeological comparative study of seasonal pastoral and craft-related settlements in medieval and post-medieval southern France
• Places, territories, and routes of medieval and early modern practice of pannage in Hungary

 

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