The Harvest of the Hills : : Rural Life in Northern England and the Scottish Borders / / Angus J.L. Winchester.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Winchester, Angus J.L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (194 p.)

This illustrated environmental history of rural life in Northern England and the Scottish Borders in the late medieval and early modern periods explores the relationship between society and the environment - the ways in which humans responded to and used the environment in which they lived.The author uses the orders and byelaws made by manorial courts to build up a picture of how pastoral society in the Pennine, Lake District and Border hills husbanded the resources of the uplands. It offers an upland, pastoral paradigm of land use, the management of common land, and the transition from medieval to early-modern farming systems to balance the extensive literature on the agrarian history of the lowlands.The geographical scope of the book includes the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales, the Border hills, the North Pennines and the Forest of Bowland. Through a lively text and carefully selected illustrations the author captures the distinctive local culture of traditional pastoral communities in these much visited areas of Britain.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Upland Environments and an Evolving Pastoral Economy -- 2. Law, Custom and Good Neighbourhood: Common Rights and the Manor Courts -- 3. The Hill Farming Year -- 4. Summer Pasture on the Fells: Stints, Shielings and Agistment -- 5. Good Neighbourhood on the Common Grazings -- 6. Materials for Hearth and Home -- 7. Manor Courts in a Changing World, 1400-1700 -- APPENDIX I Illustrative Documents -- APPENDIX II Upland Manor Court Records used in this study -- Bibliography -- Index