1: Introduction
2: Geography and Sources
3: The Early to Middle Anglo-Saxon Period, 500-800
4: The Late Anglo-Saxon Period, 800-1100
5: The High Middle Ages, 1100-1350
6: The Late Middle Ages, 1350-1530
7: The Early Modern Period, 1530-1650
8: Conclusion
Bibliography
Stephen Mileson is a landscape historian who works for the Victoria
County History of Oxfordshire. He teaches at Oxford University, and
he has published widely on medieval landscapes and social history.
His publications include an article in Past and Present on
'Openness and Closure in the Later Medieval Village'. Stephen is
editor of the journal Oxoniensia. Stuart Brookes is a Senior
Research Associate at UCL and author of seven monographs and
edited volumes, including (with John Baker) Beyond the Burghal
Hidage, winner of the 2013 Verbruggen Prize in Military History.
Stuart is editor of The Antiquaries Journal and Wiltshire
Archaeological and Natural History
Magazine.
New ways of seeing the medieval countryside are offered through a
rewarding account of 20 villages in S. Oxfordshire with a focus
that offers an alternative to the usual narratives of colonisation,
village formation, social subjection and agricultural
development.
*Christopher Dyer, Emeritus Professor of Regional and Local
History, University of Leicester, Medieval Archaeology*
The book is well written, scholarly yet accessible, and draws on a
wide-ranging academic literature from archaeology to history, and
from the Dark Ages to the dawn of modernity. Mileson and Brookes
have produced an admirable book...the authors' passionate interest
in their subject matter, and their informed and judicious
judgements, are the outstanding features.
*Mark Bailey, Professor of Later Medieval History at the University
of East Anglia and Chair of the Manorial Documents Advisory Panel
on behalf of The National Archives., The Local Historian *
The authors express the hope that the book will 'stand as a model
for future research in different regions and landscapes'. They have
succeeded admirably in this aim, combining painstaking research
with inventive means of exploring the landscape forged by, and in
turn influencing, the peasants of Ewelme hundred.
*David Stone, Medieval Settlement Research 38*
Stephen Mileson and Stuart Brookes in this valuable volume seek to
understand how peasant perceptions changed over the medieval and
early modern periods.
*Leonie V. Hicks, Speculum 99/1*
Mileson and his co-author Stuart Brookes duly delivered on this in
their remarkably ambitious Peasant perceptions of landscape, a
study of Ewelme hundred in Oxfordshire over more than a
millennium.
*Jeremy Burchardt, Historical Journal*
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