IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 506: Defining Forests: Forest Management in Long Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, I - Policing the Forest
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Bernhard Muigg, Institut für Forstwissenschaften, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg David Wallace-Hare, Department of Classics, University of Toronto |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Chelsea Shields-Más, Department of History, University of York |
| Paper 506-a | The Early Irish Law Tract Fidbretha 'Tree-Judgments' (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Language and Literature - Celtic, Law |
| Paper 506-b | Forest Access in Early Medieval Hesse (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Local History, Onomastics |
| Paper 506-c | Forest Management in Legal, Commercial, and Administrative Sources from Visigothic and Muslim Spain (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Law |
| Abstract | Forests often represented border areas between cultivated land and wilderness and almost always contained important resources whose ownership was hotly contended and controlled. This multi-session panel provides a cross-disciplinary approach examining forest use during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (3rd-10th century CE) combining written sources, archaeological evidence, and proxy data. Forests provided valuable resources (e.g. construction timber, fuelwood, acorns) for past societies but have only recently come under intense scholarly scrutiny in the last decades. Session I examines regulations surrounding forest use and misuse during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages through three case studies. |