An examination of daily life in the Middle Ages which reveals the intimate relations between
age groups, between the living and the dead, and between people and things. An important …

Abstract The Black Death was the largest demographic shock in European history. We
review the evidence for the origins, spread, and mortality of the disease. We document that it …

Understanding the effects of socio-ecological shocks on land use/land cover (LULC) change
is essential for developing land management strategies and for reducing adverse …

Socioeconomic shocks can shape future land-use trajectories. Armed conflicts are an
extreme form of a socioeconomic shock, but our understanding of how armed conflicts affect …

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 …

This book examines the contribution of archaeology to the study of the social, economic,
religious, and other developments in England from the end of the Roman period at the start …

This paper reviews the results of more than a hundred small archaeological “test pit”
excavations carried out in 2013 within four rural communities in eastern England. Each …

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 …

A thousand villages disappeared in Czechia during the course of historic development.
There are two basic causes of the disappearance of villages: artificial human intervention …

In Europe, many contemporary forests are not continuous, but were established on former
agricultural land in territories of deserted villages. We aimed to explore whether medieval …