Medieval resources
I am interested in how people in medieval Europe have managed various resources to make the most of their potential. I have looked extensively at agricultural landscapes and the environment in the early Anglo-Norman period (1066-1135) in England and Normandy. I have also published on swine husbandry and agricultural practice in the High and Late Middle Ages in both city and countryside.
Masters thesis, University of Houston, 2004, directed by Sally Vaughn. Contrary to the view that the Middle Ages was simply a time of rapid environmental exploitation and degradation, legal documents of the Anglo-Norman kings who reigned England and Normandy 1066-1135 reveal that medieval landholders practiced conscious management of their resources.…
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Journal of the Oxford University History Society, 1.1 (2004). Contrary to the common view that the Middle Ages was a time of rapid environmental exploitation and degradation, legal documents of the first three Anglo-Norman kings, who reigned over England and Normandy from 1066 to 1135, reveal that medieval landholders in…
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In Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Medieval World, vol. 2, ed. Pam Crabtree (New York: Facts on File, 2008), 473-475. Find out more about the 4-volume encyclopedia set here.
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Review of Harold Fox, Dartmoor’s Alluring Uplands: Transhumance and Pastoral Management in the Middle Ages, Agricultural History 89, 114–115. Review of Tom Williamson, Environment, Society and Landscape in Early Medieval England, Canadian Journal of History 49, 487-488. Review of John Aberth, An Environmental History of the Middle Ages: The Crucible of…
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