Settlement change across Medieval Europe
Settlement change across Medieval Europe
Settlement change across Medieval Europe
Settlement change across Medieval Europe
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The idea that the past was an era with long periods of little or no change is almost certainly false. Change has always affected human society. Some of the catalysts for change were exogenous and lay in natural transformations, such as climate change or plant and animal diseases. Others came from endogamous processes, such as demographic change and the resulting alterations in demographic pressure. They might be produced by economic changes in the agrarian economy such as crop- or stock-breeding or better agricultural husbandry systems with the resultant greater harvests. Equally, they might be from technological developments in industry and manufacturing affecting traditional forms of production. We should also note changes in ideology within society and even between principal groups, such as secular and ecclesiastical bodies. We need to consider the impact of politics and warfare.

These innovations, transmissions and transformations had profound spatial, economic and social impacts on the environments, landscapes and habitats evident at micro-, meso- and macro-levels. Changes, alterations and modifications may affect how land was worked, how it was organized, and the nature of buildings and rural complexes (homesteads, work buildings, villages, monasteries, towns and landscapes).

The authors of the 36 papers focus in particular on transmissions and transformations in a longue durée perspective, such as from early medieval times (c. 500AD) to the High Middle Ages (c. 1000/1200 AD), and from medieval to post-medieval and early modern times (1700). The case studies include the shrinking and disappearance of settlements; changes in rule and authority; developments in the agrarian economy; the shift from handwork to manufacturing; demographic change.

Contents

Preface
Niall Brady, Claudia Theune

Introduction
Niall Brady, Claudia Theune

Mountain communities in the Catalan Pyrenees: 25 years of archaeological research
Walter Alegría-Tejedor, Marta Sancho-Planas, Maria Soler-Sala

Endogenous and exogenous characteristics of settlement development of an early medieval settlement at Sursee (Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland)
Christian auf der Maur

Not so dark centuries: changes and continuities in the Catalan landscape (6th-12th centuries)
Jordi Bolòs

Rural settlement in later medieval Ireland through the lens of deserted settlements
Niall Brady

Rural settlement and economy in Campania (South Italy) between Late Antiquity and Middle Ages
Nicola Busino

Deciphering transformations of rural settlement and land-use patterns in central Adriatic Italy between the 6th and the 12th centuries AD
Francesca Carboni, Frank Vermeulen

Change and continuity in rural early medieval Hispania. Comparative multidisciplinary approach to the countrysides of Egitania (Idanha-A-Velha, Portugal) and Emerita (Mérida, Spain)
Tomás Cordero Ruiz

Beyond the Borders: transformations, acculturation and adaptation between Latium and Campania during the Lombard Period (6th - 8th c.)
Cristina Corsi

Silent witness: the deserted medieval borough of Newtown Jerpoint, Co Kilkenny, Ireland
Ian Doyle, Tadhg O'Keeffe

Kopaniec in the Izera Mountains. An example of unusual transformation of a village after the Thirty Years' War period in Silesia
Paweł Duma, Jerzy Piekalski, Anna Łuczak

Counting heads. Post-Roman population decline in the Rhine-Meuse delta (the Netherlands) and the need for more evidence-based reconstructions
Bert Groenewoudt, Rowin J. van Lanen

Land-organisational changes in rural Denmark from AD 200-1200
Jesper Hansen

Settlement abandonment in Dartmoor (England): Retreat of margins r

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