Miriam Müllerller - The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life

The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life brings together the latest research on peasantry in medieval Europe.

The aim is to place peasants as small-scale agricultural producers firmly at the centre of this volume, as people with agency, immense skill and resilience to shape their environments, cultures and societies. This volume examines the changes and evolutions within village societies across the medieval period, over a broad chronology and across a wide geography. Rural structures, families and hierarchies are examined alongside tool use and trade, as well as the impact of external factors such as famine and the Black Death. The contributions offer insights into multidisciplinary research, incorporating archaeological as well as landscape studies alongside traditional historical documentary approaches across widely differing local and regional contexts across medieval Europe.

This book will be an essential reference for scholars and students of medieval history, as well those interested in rural, cultural and social history.

Miriam Mller has worked as a lecturer in medieval history at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has published on a wide range of topics about medieval rural life, including peasant revolts and gender in the English village. Her current research interests include medieval coastal communities, peasant revolts in northern Germany and the representation of medieval peasants in modern and contemporary far-right movements.

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THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE MONGOLS AND CENTRAL-EASTERN EUROPE
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THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF MEDIEVAL RURAL LIFE
Edited by Miriam Mller

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Edited by Florin Curta

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Edited by Miriam Mller

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Miriam Mller

Frederic Aparisi

Tommaso Casini

Aysu Dincer

Piotr Guzowski

Mathias Moosbrugger

R.N. Swanson

Justine Firnhaber-Baker

Maka De Keyzer

Phillipp R. Schofield

Philip Slavin

Jean Birrell

Chris Briggs

Adam Franklin-Lyons

Peter L. Larson

Bernadette McCooey

Janken Myrdal and Ingvild ye

Lies Vervaet

Steven Bednarski, Andrew Moore and Timothy P. Newfield

Antoni Furi

Christopher Gerrard and Ronan ODonnell

Richard Jones

Catarina Karlsson

1. Frederic Aparisi (PhD Valencia 2016) has been postdoctoral fellow Juan de la Cierva at the University of Lleida and visiting scholar Jos Castillejo at the University of Cambridge. Currently he is research assistant at the Department of Medieval History of the University of Valencia. His research focuses on the rural history of late medieval Valencia, particularly rural elites, city-countryside relations and fishing history. He is co-editor of Beyond Lords and Peasants: Rural Elites and Economic Differentiation in Pre-modern Europe (Valencia UP, 2014).

1. Steven Bednarski is an environmental and social historian of the late medieval England and France. He is Professor of History, co-Director of Medieval Studies and Director of Environments of Change at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

1. Jean Birrell has long-standing research interest in the medieval English peasantry and has published widely on a number of topics relating to medieval rural life. She has a particular interest in forest, hunting and forest law as well as medieval manorial customs. Recent publications include Manorial Custumals Reconsidered, in Past and Present, (Number 224, August 2014), pp. 337, Peasants Eating and Drinking, in: The Agricultural History Review, Vol. 63, No. 1 (2015), pp. 118.

1. Chris Briggs is Senior Lecturer in Medieval British Economic and Social History at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the rural history of late medieval England, and in particular the living standards of peasants and their interactions with markets and the law. He is the author of Credit and Village Society in Fourteenth-Century England (2009) and co-editor (with Jaco Zuijderduijn) of Land and Credit: Mortgages in the Medieval and Early Modern European Countryside (2018).

1. Tommaso Casini was born in Pelago, near Florence (Italy). He studied at the University of Florence, where he graduated under the supervision of Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur and obtained a doctorate in Medieval History in 2009. At present he is pursuing his research work as an independent scholar, while teaching Philosophy and History in the Italian high school. His research work has focused on social, political and institutional relations in the twelfth- and thirteenth-century Tuscan countryside and he is now working on the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century registers of the bishops of Fiesole.

1. Maka De Keyzer is a tenure track docent at the KU Leuven (Belgium). She obtained her PhD in 2014 with a dissertation on late medieval commons, sustainability and inclusiveness. Via an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, Maka De Keyzer analyses the causes and consequences of welfare, inequality, social resilience and collective action in the premodern period.