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The harvest of the hills : rural life in Northern England and the Scottish borders, 1400-1700

Title: The harvest of the hills : rural life in Northern England and the Scottish borders, 1400-1700 / Angus J.L. Winchester.
Author: Winchester, Angus J. L.
Publication: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2000.

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Description

xiii, 194 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

"This illustrated environmental history of rural life in Northern England and the Scottish borders in the late medieval and early modern periods explores the relationship between society and the environment - the ways in which humans responded to and used the environment in which they lived." "The author uses the orders and byelaws made by manorial courts to build up a picture of how pastoral society in the Pennine, Lake District and Border hills husbanded the resources of the uplands. It offers an upland, pastoral paradigm of land use, the management of common land, and the transition from medieval to early-modern farming systems to balance the extensive literature on the agrarian history of the lowlands." "The geographical scope of the book includes the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales, the Border hills, the North Pennines and the Forest of Bowland. Through a lively text and carefully selected illustrations the author captures the distinctive local culture of traditional pastoral communities in these much visited areas of Britain."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-187) and index.

ISBN

1853312398
9781853312397

LCCN

2001369275

OCLC

ocm45848220
45848220
SCSB-14191014

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library