IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 1312: Forests in England and Wales, III: Utility in the Forests
Wednesday 9 July 2008, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | St John's College, University of Oxford |
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| Organiser: | John Langton, St John's College, University of Oxford |
| Moderator/Chair: | Robin Alan Butlin, School of Geography, University of Leeds |
| Paper 1312-a | Upland Medieval Forests as Common Grazing Grounds (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Paper 1312-b | Changing Management Purposes in Clarendon Forest (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Economics - Rural |
| Paper 1312-c | Historical Concept to Physical Reality: Forests in the Landscape of the Welsh Borderlands (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Abstract | Forests and chases arguably represent the broadly forgotten half of our pre-industrial agrarian and communal histories. Given their number, extent, and function in national life, the impact of forests and chases on the medieval landscape demands to be better understood. In northern England, where forests were important for cattle farming, vaccaries had as great an impact as deer-parks. In the south, royal perambulations demanded palatial accommodation and infrastructure for the chase. In Wales and the borderlands, forests were numerous but few, it seems, reveal themselves in the landscape. Should medievalists include 18th-century estate maps in their research kits? |