Field Systems and Farming Systems in Late Medieval England (Variorum Collected Studies)

Surrey, England & Burlington, VT: Routledge/Ashgate/Variorium, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Variorum collected studies series 2008 Blue cloth boards with gilt titling on front and spine. Front board ever so slightly bowed. Upper front corner bumped, along with pages through about 30. ISBN sticker on rear board. Binding is tight. Text is unmarked. Owner's bookplate on inside front cover. Small quarto. BOOK INFO: 'The thirteen essays reproduced in this volume...share several common concerns. First and fundamentally, they aim to reconstruct late-medieval agrarian arrangements from the wealth of extant contemporary documentary sources preserved in a wide array of public and private archives.' (-from the Introduction). See photos for Table of Contents: Population change and the genesis of commonfields on a Norfolk manor -- The extent and layout of commonfields in eastern Norfolk -- The regional uniqueness of English field systems? : some evidence from eastern Norfolk -- Commonfield origins, the regional dimension -- Commonfield agriculture : the Andes and medieval England compared / with R.A. Godoy -- Towards an agricultural geography of medieval England : review article of J. Langdon's ""Horses, oxen and technological innovation : the use of draught animals in English farming, 1066-1500"" -- The diffusion of vetches in medieval England -- Mapping the agricultural geography of medieval England / with J.P. Power -- The livestock of Chaucer's reeve : fact or fiction? -- Cluster analysis and the classification of medieval demesne-farming systems / with J.P. Power -- Economic rent and the intensification of English agriculture, 1086-1350 -- The demesne-farming systems of post-Black Death England : a classification / with K.C. Bartley and J.P. Power -- Inquisitiones post mortem, GIS, and the creation of a land-use map of medieval England / with K.C. Bartley.'\nIncludes bibliographical references and index.\n1 v. (various pagings) : ill., maps (some col.) ; 26 cm.