IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 2117: Changing Forests: Forest Management in Long Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, II
Friday 9 July 2021, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Bernhard Muigg, Institut für Forstwissenschaften, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
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Moderator/Chair: | David Wallace-Hare, Department of Classics, University of Toronto |
Paper 2117-a | Forest Access in Early Medieval Hesse (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Local History, Onomastics |
Paper 2117-b | Land Clearing and Forest Use in Early Medieval Luxembourg: Testimony from Toponymy (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Geography and Settlement Studies, Onomastics |
Paper 2117-c | Woodland Management in Late Antique and Early Medieval South-West Germany: Evidence from Tree Rings and Charcoals (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Economics - Rural, Local History |
Abstract | Forests often represented border areas between cultivated land and wilderness and typically contained key resources the ownership of which was hotly contested and controlled. As hubs of changing and contested resources, forests expanded, contracted, and disappeared for a variety of reasons in the premodern age. The Changing Forests session series provides a cross-disciplinary approach examining forest use in a less studied but crucially important period for understanding forest dynamics, Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (3rd-10th century CE). Session II examines forest management strategies in early medieval Germany and Luxembourg. |