Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cheyette, Fredric

Titel

The Origins of European Villages and the First European Expansion

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of economic history, 1977-03, Vol.37 (1), p.182-206

Ort / Verlag

New York, USA: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

1977

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The countryside of Europe in the Roman period was one of dispersed villas and farmsteads placed in a regular grid. That of post-Roman Europe was one of nucleated villages surrounded by irregular fields and “spider's web” tracks. The change occurred between the sixth and the ninth centuries, when the countryside was largely emptied of its population. The reasons for this change should be explored, for this reconstruction of the countryside was the start of the medieval economic expansion that gave Europe a density of population and intensity of land exploitation it had never before achieved.