Agrarian Technology in the Medieval Landscape: Agrartechnik in mittelalterlichen Landschaften. Technologie agraire dans le paysage médiéval. 9th-15th September 2013 Smolenice, Slovakia

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Ruralia X includes 27 papers dealing with agrarian technologies in the medieval landscape as seen in different European countries. The subject areas include cultivation, livestock husbandry, gardening, viticulture and woodland management – interpreting the concept of agrarian production in a broad sense – studied mainly on the basis of archaeology, but also using iconography, documentary evidence and archaeo-environmental approaches. Ruralia X, marks an important step on the way towards interpreting innovation, as well as understanding the varieties of agrarian activity from a Europe-wide perspective. Authors from 14 countries provide a broad overview of the current issues, complemented by extensive bibliographies. Ruralia X represents one of the current fields of European archaeological research and offers a solid foundation for further comparative studies. Front Matter ("Contents – Inhalt – Sommaire", "Foreword", "Ruralia – a retrospect: 1994–2014"), p. i Free Access Agrarian technology in the medieval landscape – an introduction, p. xiii Eva Svensson, Mark Gardiner https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110455 An approach to understanding medieval field systems across Europe: the structure and anatomy of township field systems, p. 1 Stephen Moorhouse, James Bond https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110456 Features within medieval township farming landscapes in Yorkshire and their function, p. 49 Stephen Moorhouse https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110457 Continental plant introductions to medieval monastic gardens in Britain, p. 89 James Bond https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110458 Mukked and folded land: the evidence of field data for medieval cultivation techniques in Scotland, p. 107 Piers Dixon https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110459 Cosmeston, South Wales: Conquest, colonisation and material culture change, p. 125 Alice Forward, John Hines https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110460 What the plough can reveal about the role of agrarian technology in the changing nature of early medieval Ireland, p. 143 Niall Brady https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110461 Agrarian technology and land use in Scandinavian landscapes c. 800-1300 AD, p. 157 Ingvild Øye https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110462 North Norwegian farm mounds – economic resources and landscape conditions, p. 173 Vibeke Vandrup Martens https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110463 Archaeological investigations of an agrarian landscape in western Norway – the fjord farm Indre Matre, p. 185 Janicke Larsen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110464 Increase in iron production – a prerequisite for change in the medieval landscape, p. 195 Catarina Karlsson https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110465 Spade cultivation and intensification of land use 1000-1300: written sources, archaeology and images, p. 203 Janken Myrdal, Alexandra Sapoznik https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110466 The mouldboard plough in the Danish area 200-1500 AD, p. 225 Lars Agersnap Larsen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110467 Norse agriculture in Greenland? Farming in a remote medieval landscape, p. 237 Peter Steen Henriksen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110468 Structuring landscape, shaping community, p. 247 Johan P. W. Verspay https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110469 Landscape history and archaeology of open fields in Europe, p. 255 Hans Renes https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110470 Agrarian practices and landscape in the estate of Wellin (Belgium) from the Early Middle Ages to the Modern Period: Archaeology and History, p. 267 Philippe Mignot, Nicolas Schroeder https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110471 Archaeological evidence for agrarian manuring: Studying the time-space dynamics of agricultural areas with surface-collected off-site material, p. 279 Nicolas Poirier https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110472 Medieval north-west Spain: What can agrarian archaeology tell us about living rural landscapes?, p. 291 Margarita Fernández Mier, Pablo Alonso González https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110473 Agricultural drainage technology in medieval Mediterranean Iberia (13th–16th centuries), p. 309 Josep Torró https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110474 The material culture and agricultural traditions in the early medieval eastern Merovingian areas: a new study proposal, p. 325 Paolo de Vingo https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110475 Mittelalterliche Feldstrukturen in deutschen Mittelgebirgslandschaften – Forschungsfragen, Methoden und Herausforderungen für Archäologie und Geographie, p. 351 Rainer Schreg https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110476 Perspectives of the analysis of toponyms in the framework of settlement and environmental archaeology. Methods and research practice at the Stubersheimer Alb (Swabian Alb, Southern Germany), p. 371 Iris Nießen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110477 The archaeological investigation of medieval agrarian tools and techniques in Hungary – an overview of some rarely quoted analyses, p. 385 Miklós Takács https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110478 Potential husbandry strategies in 10th-century settlements in the Carpathian Basin. A case study: Two early medieval sites along the River Danube, p. 395 Szabina Merva https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110479 On the agrarian technology of the Avar Period in Hungary. Grinding stones and quern-stones from Hajdúnánás - Mácsi-dűlő, p. 407 Rozália Bajkai https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110480 Das Bauernjahr vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit – Feldarbeiten und Landwirtschaftsgeräte dem Kalender nach. Archäologische Funde aus mittelalterlichen Ortswüstungen im Vergleich mit bildlichen Quellen und ethnographischen Belegen, p. 429 Zdeňka Měchurová https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110481 On the meaning of agrarian tools from a Czech perspective, p. 443 Jan Klápště https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RURALIA-EB.5.110482