The South Oxfordshire Project
Perceptions of landscape, settlement and society, c . 500–1650
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16525334 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Mileson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 83-98 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Landscape History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-3768 • E-ISSN: 2160-2506 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01433768.2012.739399 |
| OpenAlex | W2040555527 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
Historians and archaeologists are increasingly interested in moving beyond landscape reconstruction and economics to investigate how past inhabitants perceived their environment. This reflects the subject's intrinsic interest and an awareness of the importance of decisions made by ordinary people in shaping the development of the countryside. However, the evidence available makes it difficult to uncover mentalities and attitudes. To date, most attention has been paid to particular features which seem to say most about self-perception and beliefs, but the greatest advances will arguably be made by studying the landscape as a whole. This article explains the approach to popular perceptions being adopted by ‘The South Oxfordshire Project’, an interdisciplinary analysis of fourteen parishes encompassing lowland clay vales and Chilterns wood-pasture from the early Middle Ages to the mid seventeenth century
Archaeology · Curriculum · Environmental ethics · Geography · Pedagogy · Perception · Settlement (finance · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subject matter · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Psychology
Reflections
The Medieval World of Nature
Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs
The Reformation of the Landscape
Ideas of Landscape
The Church in Anglo–Saxon Society
Village Bells
Gender and Material Culture
Thinking Through the Manorial Affix
Outline of a Theory of Practice
A Crooked Line
The World of the Rural Dissenters, 1520-1725
Plants in Late Medieval festivals and customs in written and pictorial sources from southern central Europe
An Historical Atlas of Oxfordshire
Anglo-Saxon and Earlier Settlement near Drayton Road, Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire
Social and economic contributions to the pattern of ‘suicide’ in south-east England, 1530–1590
Gender and Spacein English Royal Palaces c. 1160—c. 1547
Gentry and Community in Medieval England
The English Medieval Village Community and Its Decline
Medieval England
Medieval Devon and Cornwall
The Ties That Bound
Post-processual Landscape Archaeology
The temporality of the landscape
Seeing and believing
New light on the Anglo-Saxon succession
Perspectives in Scottish Social History
Meaningful constructions - spatial and functional analysis of medieval buildings
Housing Culture
Medieval Popular Culture
Montaillou
A fear of the past
Children's Play in the Later Medieval English Countryside
Towards a social archaeology of the late medieval English peasantry
A phenomenology of landscape
Materializing Resistant Identities Among the Medieval Peasantry
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |