Changing Settlements and Landscapes: Medieval Whittlewood, its predecessors and successors

Richard Jones, Christopher Dyer and Mark Page

Summary
Table of Contents

1. Introduction
- 1.1 'Village Country' and the 'Land of Hamlets'
- 1.2 Defining medieval villagescapes
2. Exploring Medieval Village Territories
- 2.1 The study area
- 2.2 Methodology
3. The Evolution of Post-medieval Village Territories
- 3.1 Territorial boundaries
- 3.2 Settlement morphology
- 3.3 Fields
- 3.4 Summary
4. The Creation of Village Territories
- 4.1 Reconstructing early estate structures
- 4.2 The transition from estates to villages
- 4.3 Settlements
- 4.4 Chronology and process
5. The Development of Medieval Village Territories
- 5.1 Alternative settlement models
  - 5.1.1 Dispersed settlement
  - 5.1.2 Nucleated settlement
- 5.2 The introduction of the open field system
  - 5.2.1 Dating
  - 5.2.2 How and why?
  - 5.2.3 The development of the arable zone
  - 5.2.4 Parallels
- 5.3 Changing settlement patterns and morphologies
  - 5.3.1 Stimuli and responses
  - 5.3.2 Trajectories and chronology
6. Late Medieval Village Territories
7. Conclusions
Bibliography
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