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Changing Settlements and Landscapes: Medieval Whittlewood, its predecessors and successors

Richard Jones, Christopher Dyer and Mark Page

Table of Contents

• Summary
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• The Whittlewood GIS
• Structure

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 'Village Country' and the 'Land of Hamlets'
  • 1.2 Defining medieval villagescapes
• 2. Exploring Medieval Village Territories
  • 2.1 The study area
  • 2.2 Methodology
• 3. The Evolution of Post-medieval Village Territories
  • 3.1 Territorial boundaries
  • 3.2 Settlement morphology
  • 3.3 Fields
  • 3.4 Summary
• 4. The Creation of Village Territories
  • 4.1 Reconstructing early estate structures
  • 4.2 The transition from estates to villages
  • 4.3 Settlements
  • 4.4 Chronology and process
• 5. The Development of Medieval Village Territories
  • 5.1 Alternative settlement models
    • 5.1.1 Dispersed settlement
    • 5.1.2 Nucleated settlement
  • 5.2 The introduction of the open field system
    • 5.2.1 Dating
    • 5.2.2 How and why?
    • 5.2.3 The development of the arable zone
    • 5.2.4 Parallels
  • 5.3 Changing settlement patterns and morphologies
    • 5.3.1 Stimuli and responses
    • 5.3.2 Trajectories and chronology
• 6. Late Medieval Village Territories
• 7. Conclusions
• Bibliography
• Glossary

• The Digital Archive

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