Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Grenville Astill and John Langdon -- List of Figures / Steven J. Allen -- List of Tables / Grenville Astill and John Langdon -- List of Contributors / Grenville Astill and John Langdon -- 1. Introduction / John Langdon, Grenville Astill, and Janken Myrdal -- 2. Technology and Agricultural Expansion in the Middle Ages: The Example of France North of the Loire / Georges Comet -- 3. The Development of Farming Implements Between the Seine and the Rhine from the Second to the Twelfth Centuries / Georges Raepsaet -- 4. The Birth of “The Flemish Husbandry”: Agricultural Technology in Medieval Flanders / Erik Thoen -- 5. Agricultural Production and Technology in the Netherlands, C. 1000–1500 / Peter Hoppenbrouwers -- 6. Agricultural Technology in Medieval Denmark / Bjørn Poulsen -- 7. The Agricultural Transformation of Sweden, 1000–1300 / Janken Myrdal -- 8. Fields and Field Systems in Scandinavia During the Middle Ages / Mats Widgren -- 9. An Archaeological Approach to the Development of Agricultural Technologies in Medieval England / Grenville Astill -- 10. Economic Rent and the Intensification of English Agriculture, 1086–1350 / Bruce M. S. Campbell -- 11. Agricultural Technology in Southeast England, 1348–1530 / Mavis Mate -- 12. Was England a Technological Backwater in the Middle Ages? / John Langdon -- 13. Medieval Farming and Technology: Conclusion / Christopher Dyer -- Index / Ann Hudson.

This is the first of three planned volumes which deal with the techniques and technology of agriculture in Europe in the period from 600 A.D. down to the 17th century. The focus of this first volume is Scandinavia, the British Isles, Northern Germany, the Low Countries and Northern France. The volume discusses methodological approaches and their limitations, the development of medieval agriculture in terms of the transmission of technological ideas, improvements in productivity, regional variations, social responses to agricultural technology, and those common trends that unite the Northwest European region. The volume integrates material derived from the great advances made in medieval archaeology and the historical study of landscapes during the past 30 years and has a supranational character. It will be of interest to all those working on the social, economic and political history of Northwest Europe in the medieval and early modern periods as well as to those undertaking research in the specific field of the history of technology.

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