Ruralia
Agrarian Technology in the Medieval Landscape
Agrartechnik in mittelalterlichen Landschaften. Technologie agraire dans le paysage médiéval. 9th - 15th September 2013 Smolenice, Slovakia
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.
Hierarchies in rural settlements
The Ruralia Volume 9 includes thirty papers dealing with the various aspects of social and economic hierarchy in the rural settlement in medieval Europe mainly from archaeological point of view. The authors from 15 countries provide a broad overview of the current issues complemented for the most part by extensive bibliographies. Very important are also the high quality figures.
The main topics include the differentiation of rural social and economic structure refl ected for example in the building culture and various aspects of everyday life. The topic of discussion is the hierarchy of power and the many ways it is presented in archaeology. The focus is on the manor houses and manorial farms as well as the grain mills in rural areas and the impact of mining activity.
The Ruralia Volume 9 represents one of the current fields of European archaeological research and offers a solid foundation for further comparative studies.
Medieval Rural Settlement in Marginal Landscapes
Peuplement rural dans les territoires marginaux au Moyen Âge. Mittelalterliche Siedlung in ländlichen Randgebieten
