The Making of Feudal Agricultures?

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-11722-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Reihe: Transformation of the Roman World

Was there a discernible set of changes in the techniques of arable farming, animal husbandry and their associated technologies at the end of antiquity which marked a clear break with an established ‘ancient world economy’ and ushered in the ‘new agricultures’ of the early middle ages? Were such changes not already visible in antiquity? And what was the impact of political, economic, social and environmental change in these processes? The 6 papers in this volume reject simple evolutionary models charting progress from "protohistory" to the "Roman period" to the "Dark Ages" to the "Middle Ages" and insisted rather on the notion of inheritance, so that the farming economy laid down in protohistoric times continued to exist during the early Middle Ages. The collapse of a capitalistic commercial economy of the later Roman Empire though accompanied by political and military crises did not entail a regression of the farming economy. The growth in farming in the 8th - 9th C, resting on a demographic increase combined with intensive land clearance episodes, owed much to the preceding centuries: the change resides more in an intensification than in the introduction of new features. With contributions by Pascal Reigniez, Catherine Rommelaere, Georges Raepsaet, G. Comet, Aline Durand and Philippe Leveau.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barceló, Miquel

Sigaut, François

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Miquel Barceló, Ph.D. (1970) is Professor of Medieval History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and author of several works on the hydraulic archaeology and the peasantry of the medieval western Mediterranean.
François Sigaut is a historical anthropologist and historian of technologies and directeur d’études at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris.