Settlement Change Across Medieval Europe : Old Paradigms and New Vistas.

Intro -- Foreword -- Niall Brady and Claudia Theune -- Introduction -- Claudia Theune and Niall Brady -- Transformations of settlements for agricultural production between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages in Italy -- Marcello Rotili* -- Beyond the borders -- Transformations, acculturation, and adaptation between Lazio and Campania during the Lombard Period (6th - 8th centuries) -- Cristina Corsi* -- Deciphering transformations of rural settlement and land-use patterns in central Adriatic Italy between the 6th and the 12th centuries AD -- Francesca Carboni and Frank Vermeulen* -- Rural settlement and economy in Campania (South Italy) between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- Nicola Busino* -- Post-Roman land-use transformations -- Analysing the early medieval countryside in Castelo de Vide (Portugal) -- Sara Prata* -- Change and continuity in rural early medieval Hispania -- A comparative multidisciplinary approach to the countryside of Egitania (Idanha-A-Velha, Portugal) and Emerita (Mérida, Spain) -- Tomás Cordero Ruiz* -- Mountain communities in the Catalan Pyrenees: 25 years of archaeological research -- Walter Alegría-Tejedor *, Marta Sancho-Planas ** &amp -- Maria Soler-Sala *** -- Not so dark centuries: Changes and continuities in the Catalan landscape (6th-12th centuries) -- Jordi Bolòs* -- Endogenous and exogenous characteristics of settlement development of an early medieval settlement at Sursee (Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland) -- Christian Auf der Maur* -- Counting heads: Post-Roman population decline in the Rhine-Meuse delta (the Netherlands) and the need for more evidence-based reconstructions -- Rowin J. van Lanen* &amp -- Bert J. Groenewoudt** -- Rural settlement in later medieval Ireland through the lens of deserted settlements -- Niall Brady*.

New evidence for the transformative impact of depopulation on currently inhabited medieval rural settlements from archaeological test-pit excavation in England -- Carenza Lewis* -- Late medieval deserted settlements in southern Germany as a consequence of long-term landscape transformations -- Rainer Schreg* -- Crisis or transition? -- Risk and resilience during the Late Medieval agrarian crisis -- Eva Svensson* -- Assembling in times of transitions -- The case of cooking-pit sites -- Marie Ødegaard * -- Settlement abandonment in Dartmoor (England) -- Retreat of the margins reassessed in terms of market accessibility factors -- Lukáš Holata* -- Medieval settlement dynamics in peatland reclamations in the western, central, and northern Netherlands -- Jan van Doesburg* -- Mendicant friaries and the changing landscapes of late medieval Ireland -- The foundations of the Augustinian friars in counties Mayo and Sligo -- Anne-Julie Lafaye* -- Transformation and continuity in the Wexford countryside -- Breda Lynch* -- Silent witness: the deserted medieval borough of Newtown Jerpoint, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland -- Ian W. Doyle* and Tadhg O'Keeffe** -- The Anglo-Scottish Western March: A landscape in transition -- Caron Newman* -- Rural landscapes of north-eastern Rus' in transition -- From the large unfortified settlements of the Viking Age to medieval villages -- Nikolaj Makarov* -- Change in rural settlement in eastern Central Europe from the Early to the Later Middle Ages -- Elisabeth Nowotny* -- Late medieval transformation of the rural landscape -- A model of melioratio terrae on the examples of the land of Nysa-Otmuchów and the Kaczawskie Foothills, Silesia, Poland -- Maria Legut-Pintal* -- Breaking old ties: Settlement relocation in North-Brabant (NL) at the dawn of the Late Middle Ages -- Johan Verspay*.

Land-organisational changes in rural Denmark from AD 200‑1200 -- Jesper Hansen* -- Kopaniec in the Izera Mountains -- An example of unusual transformation in a village after the Thirty Years' War period in Silesia (1618‑1648) -- Paweł Duma, Anna Łuczak &amp -- Jerzy Piekalski* -- Socio-economic mobility and property transmission among peasants -- The Cheb Region (Czech Republic) in the Late Middle Ages -- Tomáš Klír* -- The Hungarian conquest and the 9th-10th-century settlements of the Pest Plain -- Tibor Ákos Rácz* -- Settlements, communication and power -- Transforming spatial structure in the Danube-Tisza interfluve region in the 15th-17th centuries -- Edit Sárosi* -- The transformation of rural settlements in Slavonia in the period from the 12th to the 15th centuries -- Andrej Janeš &amp -- Ivana Hirschler Marić* -- No smoke without fire -- Burning and changing settlements in 10th-century central-northern Portugal -- Catarina Tente* -- One land, two peasantries -- Moriscos and Old Christians in the upper Genal Valley, Málaga (16th-18th centuries) -- Esteban López-García, Ignacio Díaz and Félix Retamero* -- The impact of the Christian conquest on the agrarian areas in the lower Ebro Valley: the case of Xerta (Spain) -- Antoni Virgili and Helena Kirchner* -- The mid-6th century crises and their impacts on human activity and settlements in south-eastern Norway -- Steinar Solheim &amp -- Frode Iversen* -- Climate change and economic development in the Alps during the Middle Ages and the early modern Period -- Claudia Theune* -- Lege pagina -- Lege pagina.

The idea that the past was an era with long periods of little or no change is almost certainly false. Change has always affected human society. Some of the catalysts for change were exogenous and lay in natural transformations, such as climate change or plant and animal diseases. Others came from endogamous processes, such as demographic change and the resulting alterations in demographic pressure. They might be produced by economic changes in the agrarian economy such as crop- or stock-breeding or better agricultural husbandry systems with the resultant greater harvests. Equally, they might be from technological developments in industry and manufacturing affecting traditional forms of production. We should also note changes in ideology within society and even between principal groups, such as secular and ecclesiastical bodies. We need to consider the impact of politics and warfare.These innovations, transmissions and transformations had profound spatial, economic and social impacts on the environments, landscapes and habitats evident at micro-, meso- and macro-levels. Changes, alterations and modifications may affect how land was worked, how it was organized, and the nature of buildings and rural complexes (homesteads, work buildings, villages, monasteries, towns and landscapes). The authors of the 36 papers focus in particular on transmissions and transformations in a longue durée perspective, such as from early medieval times (c. 500AD) to the High Middle Ages (c. 1000/1200 AD), and from medieval to post-medieval and early modern times (1700). The case studies include the shrinking and disappearance of settlements; changes in rule and authority; developments in the agrarian economy; the shift from handwork to manufacturing; demographic change.

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