A Study of the Impact of Imparkment on the Social Landscape of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire from c1080 to 1760

von Twigs Way

390 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

From reading the title you may be wondering what imparkment' means. It is actually the conversion of land into parks, either by the owners of manorial estates or the church. Way's survey is mainly focused on the environmental effects and changes in the landscape that imparkment' brought about, though he does discuss social conflict that it caused. The bulk of the book consists of tables detailing documents relating to parks, a gazeteer of parks in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire and maps, both ancient and modern.

• Reihe: BAR British Series
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Archäologie
• ISBN: 9780860549093
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.12.1997
• Größe: 297 x 210 mm
• Verlag: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd