The story of Rijnland, a small strip of coastal lowland in the western Netherlands, is part of the legendary Dutch struggle against encroaching water. Rijnland was for centuries a stretch of uninhabited peat bogs and sand dunes. The reclamation and colonization processes that eventually transformed these remote marshes into a commercialized agricultural center form the heart of this book, which chronicles events from A.D. 950 to 1350. Unlike most studies of the European Middle Ages, this work focuses on how people of ...
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The story of Rijnland, a small strip of coastal lowland in the western Netherlands, is part of the legendary Dutch struggle against encroaching water. Rijnland was for centuries a stretch of uninhabited peat bogs and sand dunes. The reclamation and colonization processes that eventually transformed these remote marshes into a commercialized agricultural center form the heart of this book, which chronicles events from A.D. 950 to 1350. Unlike most studies of the European Middle Ages, this work focuses on how people of earlier times dealt with their physical environment. Combining historical and archaeological research techniques, William TeBrake reconstructs the world of tenth-century Rijnland, at that time one of the most underpopulated and underdeveloped parts of Europe. The author shows how, by reclaiming and colonizing the bogs, its residents gradually turned a frontier wilderness along the North Sea into a highly productive agrarian landscape. With its new approach to understanding medieval subsistence strategy, this book will be particularly useful to historical geographers and environmental historians. Its themes of land reclamation, colonization, and the continuing struggle between man and nature will provide fresh insights into life in medieval Europe.
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Very Good. 0890962049. Texas A & M Univ Press, bright clean copy, name on endpaper, no other markings, with dustjacket, Professional booksellers since 1981.
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Textual maps. Minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper. 24x16cm, xiv, 293 pp, Series: Environmental History Series; Number 7. Contents: The Historical & Ecological Setting: The Frontier in Medieval Europe; The Setting, Natural History, & Premedieval Settlement of Rijnland; Continuity in Rural Society: Early-Medieval Settlement in Rijnland: The Cultural Context; The Ecological Context; Change in Rural Society: The Reclamation & Settlement of Rijnland's Peat Bogs; Ecological & Cultural Change in Rijnland; Legacy & Significance; Appendices.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 0890962049. Small tear at head of DJ.; Contents: Part One--The Historical & Ecological Setting: The Frontier in Medieval Europe; The Setting, Natural History, & Premedieval Settlement of Rijnland; Part Two--Continuity in Rural Society: Early-Medieval Settlement in Rijnland: The Cultural Context; The Ecological Context; Part Three--Change in Rural Society: The Reclamation & Settlement of Rijnland's Peat Bogs; Ecological & Cultural Change in Rijnland; Legacy & Significance.; Environmental History Series; 293 pages.
