Why in the pre-industrial period were some settlements resilient and stable over the long
term while other settlements were vulnerable to crisis? Indeed, what made certain human …

The Black Death swept across Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century, killing millions and
devastating communities. Recent re-evaluations of source data, the discovery of new plague …

In the mid-fourteenth century the Black Death ravaged Europe, leading to dramatic
population drop and social upheavals. Recurring plague outbreaks together with social …

1 Continuity and change in the medieval English landscape 1 2 The landscape of farming
and hunting 13 3 The landscape of rural settlement 55 4 The landscape of towns and trade …

Back in 2011 I (Chris Gerrard) shared an office at Durham University with David Petley, a
physical geographer who at that time held the Wilson Chair in Hazard and Risk and was …

Those who study village origins have historically concentrated on two facets of the
phenomenon. First, considerable effort has been made to establish the date of their …

PRE-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES AND STRATEGIES FOR THE EXPLOITATION OF RESOURCES
A theoretical framework for understanding why some set Page 1 PRE-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES …

The Greek landscape preserves a wide diversity of settlements of different character, which
were established or developed especially during the later Post-Medieval and Early Modern …

The 'calamitous' 14th century saw the reversal of centuries of demographic growth as a
series of disasters including famines and epidemics caused population levels to plummet …

The fifteenth century rebates to the fifteenth and tenth form a large body of evidence which
has rarely been used to assess economic change. They were set by local commissioners …