The Medieval Park : New Perspectives

Liddiard, Robert (EDT)

Windgather Pr（2007/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 207 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781905119165
• DDC分類 909

Full Description

The park - a feature of the landscape we always associate with the hunting of deer - played an important role in the psyche of Britain's medieval aristocracy. This well-illustrated book offers a reappraisal of the park by a new generation of landscape researchers, who use a diversity of approaches to assess its economy, ecology and social role. They show how parks actually had many functions other than deer management and hunting; they were integrated into the wider rural economy, and also provided a means by which seigneurial control of the landscape might be demonstrated. They varied considerably across Britain, and are of considerable conservation significance today.

Contents

Introduction (Robert Liddiard). Part OnePark: The Sociology of Park Creation in Medieval England (S A Mileson); 'The King's Chief Delights': A Landscape Approach to the Royal Parks of Post-Conquest England (Amanda Richardson); Animal bones and Animal Parks (Naomi Sykes); The Social Construction of Medieval Park Ecosystems: An Inter-disciplinary Perspective (Aleksander Pluskowski); The Historical Ecology of Medieval Parks and the Implications for Conservation (Ian D Rotherham). Part Two: Parks in the Landscape: The Medieval Parks of Yorkshire: Function, Contents and Chronology (Stephen Moorhouse); The Distribution of Parks in Hertfordshire: Landscape, Lordship and Woodland (Anne Rowe); Hunting Suffolk's Parks: Towards a Reliable Chronology of Imparkment (Rosemary Hoppitt); Baronial and Manorial Parks in Medieval Cumbria (Angus J L Winchester).