Settlement change across Medieval Europe Old paradigms and new vistas

• Otros Autores: Brady, Niall (Editor), Theune, Claudia (Editor)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Lenguaje: inglés
• Publicado: Leiden Sidestone Press 2019
• Colección: RURALIA 12
• Materias: Medieval European archaeology; Medieval archaeology; Medieval settlement; transformation; transition; rural landscape
• Acceso en línea: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

The idea that the past was an era with long periods of little or no change is almost certainly false. Change has always affected human society. Some of the catalysts for change were exogenous and lay in natural transformations, such as climate change or plant and animal diseases. Others came from en...