Deserted Villages Revisited (Explorations In Local And Regional History)

0.0

Assembling leading experts on the subject, this account explores the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of thousands of villages and smaller settlements in England and Wales between 1340 and 1750. By revisiting the deserted villages, this breakthrough study addresses questions that have plagued archaeologists, geographers, and historians since the 1940s???including why they were deserted, why some villages survived while others were abandoned, and who was responsible for their desertion???offering a series of exciting insights into the fate of these fascinating sites.

0.0

Christopher Dyer has been Professor of Regional and Local History and Director of the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester since 2003. Dr Richard Jones is a Lecturer in Landscape History at the University of Leicester. Dr Jones has previously worked for the Sussex Archaeological Society and the University of Cardiff.

0.0

1 The origins and development of deserted village studies Christopher Taylor 2 Contrasting patterns of village and hamlet desertion in England Richard Jones 3 Villages in crisis: social dislocation and desertion, 1370-1520 Christopher Dyer 4 Dr Hoskins I presume! Field visits in the footsteps of a pioneer Paul Everson and Graham Brown 5 Houses and communities: archaeological evidence for variation in medieval peasant experience Sally V. Smith 6 Deserted medieval villages and the objects from them David A. Hinton 7 The desertion of Wharram Percy village and its wider context Stuart Wrathmell 8 Understanding village desertion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries John Broad 9 Abandoning the uplands: depopulation among dispersed settlements in western Britain Robert Silvester

0.0

"This is a stimulating book, which sparkles with Dyer's selection of telling examples and his eye for nuance." --"Economic History Review" on "An Age of Transition"