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Thousands of villages and smaller settlements were deserted in England and Wales, mostly between 1340 and 1750. Why were they deserted? Why did some villages survive while others were abandoned? Who was responsible for their desertion? What can we learn about life in the countryside from a study of the deserted sites? These questions have preoccupied archaeologists, geographers and historians since the sites were first recognised in the 1940s. Now ten leading experts in the subject have come together to revisit the deserted villages, and reveal much new evidence and new thinking about these fascinating sites.
Contents
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 10 'At Pleasure's Lordly Call': the archaeology of emparked settlements Tom Williamson 11 Deserted villages revisited: in the past, the present and future Richard Jones and Christopher Dyer
