Peasant Perceptions of Landscape

Reviews / Votes

New ways of seeing the medieval countryside are offered through a rewarding account of 20 villages in S. Oxfordshire with a focus that offers an alternative to the usual narratives of colonisation, village formation, social subjection and agricultural development. * Christopher Dyer, Emeritus Professor of Regional and Local History, University of Leicester, Medieval Archaeology * The book is well written, scholarly yet accessible, and draws on a wide-ranging academic literature from archaeology to history, and from the Dark Ages to the dawn of modernity. Mileson and Brookes have produced an admirable book...the authors' passionate interest in their subject matter, and their informed and judicious judgements, are the outstanding features. * Mark Bailey, Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and Chair of the Manorial Documents Advisory Panel on behalf of The National Archives., The Local Historian * The authors express the hope that the book will 'stand as a model for future research in different regions and landscapes'. They have succeeded admirably in this aim, combining painstaking research with inventive means of exploring the landscape forged by, and in turn influencing, the peasants of Ewelme hundred. * David Stone, Medieval Settlement Research 38 * Stephen Mileson and Stuart Brookes in this valuable volume seek to understand how peasant perceptions changed over the medieval and early modern periods. * Leonie V. Hicks, Speculum 99/1 * Mileson and his co-author Stuart Brookes duly delivered on this in their remarkably ambitious Peasant perceptions of landscape, a study of Ewelme hundred in Oxfordshire over more than a millennium. * Jeremy Burchardt, Historical Journal *