9780199207947-0199207941-Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming (Medieval History and Archaeology)

Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming (Medieval History and Archaeology)

ISBN-13: 9780199207947
ISBN-10: 0199207941
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Rosamond Faith, Debby Banham
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 352 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780199207947
ISBN-10: 0199207941
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Rosamond Faith, Debby Banham
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 352 pages

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Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming (Medieval History and Archaeology) (ISBN-13: 9780199207947 and ISBN-10: 0199207941), written by authors Rosamond Faith, Debby Banham, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming (Medieval History and Archaeology) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Farming was the basis of the wealth that made England worth invading, twice, in the eleventh century, while trade and manufacturing were insignificant by modern standards. In Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming, the authors employ a wide range of evidence to investigate how Anglo-Saxon farmers produced the food and other agricultural products that sustained English economy, society, and culture before the Norman Conquest.

The first part of the volume draws on written and pictorial sources, archaeology, place-names, and the history of the English language to discover what crops and livestock people raised, and what tools and techniques were used to produce them. In part two, using a series of landscape studies - place-names, maps, and the landscape itself, the authors explore how these techniques might have been combined into working agricultural regimes in different parts of the country. A picture emerges of an agriculture that changed from an essentially prehistoric state in the sub-Roman period to what was recognisably the beginning of a tradition that only ended with the Second World War. Anglo-Saxon farming was not only sustainable, but infinitely adaptable to different soils and geology, and to a climate changing as unpredictably as it is today.

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