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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
Moderator/Chair:David Wallace-Hare, Department of Classics, University of Toronto
Paper 2117-aForest Access in Early Medieval Hesse
(Language: English)
Matthias Hardt, Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum für Kultur & Geschichte Ostmitteleuropas e.V. (GWZO), Universität Leipzig
Index terms: Economics - Rural, Local History, Onomastics
Paper 2117-bLand Clearing and Forest Use in Early Medieval Luxembourg: Testimony from Toponymy
(Language: English)
Sam Mersch, Luxembourg Center for Contemporary & Digital History Université du Luxembourg
Index terms: Economics - Rural, Geography and Settlement Studies, Onomastics
Paper 2117-cWoodland Management in Late Antique and Early Medieval South-West Germany: Evidence from Tree Rings and Charcoals
(Language: English)
Oliver Nelle, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden-Württemberg
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.