Manors and Maps in Rural England, from the Tenth Century to the Seventeenth

P.D.A. Harvey is a historian of medieval rural England with a wide interest in the history of cartography; this collection of his essays brings together both these strands. it first looks at the English countryside from the 10th century To The 15th, investigating problems in particular documents, In the village community and in underlying long-term changes. The local management of large estates And The development of the peasant land market are themes that recur throughout. There...
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P.D.A. Harvey is a historian of medieval rural England with a wide interest in the history of cartography; this collection of his essays brings together both these strands. it first looks at the English countryside from the 10th century To The 15th, investigating problems in particular documents, In the village community and in underlying long-term changes. The local management of large estates And The development of the peasant land market are themes that recur throughout. There follow essays on the way maps were brought into the management of landed estates in the 16th and 17th centuries, starting with the introduction of consistent scale into mapping, a new concept of crucial importance. The collection closes by looking at some of the traps that both documents and maps set For The historian of the English countryside.