Ch.Dyer-R. Jones eds.: Deserted villages revisited. Explorations in Local and Regional History 3. Hertfordshire 2010. ISBN 978-1-905313-79-2

Abstract

A book review of the volume. The individual contributions deals the various aspects of the phenomena of the deserted settlements.

Mainly, why were they deserted, why did some villages survive while others were abandoned and who was responsible for their desertion?

Keywords

• Hicgh and Late Middle Ages
• 1100-1500
• Great Britain
• agrarian history
• settlement history
• medieval village
• rural community
• peasants