Farming in the First Millennium AD
British Agriculture between Julius Caesar and William the Conqueror

Synthesis of the topic of British farming in the first millennium AD.

Peter Fowler (Author)

9780521813648, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 14 November 2002

412 pages, 46 b/w illus. 6 maps
24.4 x 17 x 2.4 cm, 0.85 kg

'… the read becomes compulsory … the author succeeds in his intention to provide a survey, especially welcome for its British perspective, aimed at general readers and students, and it is written in a way that should stimulate further reading … The book will continue to be used and argued about for a considerable time.' Landscape History

Peter Fowler has written an authoritative account of farming in Britain in the first millennium AD. This is the first synthesis of our knowledge on this topic for a generation. Successive chapters assemble and analyse the latest evidence on farms, fields, technology, food, diet and society. New interpretations are offered on subjects ranging from implements to illuminated manuscripts, and evidence drawn from Northern England, Scotland and Wales contributes significantly to the story. The book concludes with a magisterial review of the ways in which agriculture shaped early Britain's societies and landscapes. It also proposes a chronological model of British agriculture for the whole millennium.

1. The first millennium
2. Evidence
3. Environment
4. Land
5. Settlements
6. Farms
7. Fields
8. Technology
9. Ards and ploughs
10. Arable
11. Livestock
12. Food and diet
13. An agrarian society
14. Farming in the first millennium.

Subject Areas: Agriculture & farming [TV], Archaeology by period / region [HDD]