Barns, granaries and security
Crop storage, processing and investment in medieval England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11892488 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David A Hinton (Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 651-679 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Medieval History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0304-4181 • E-ISSN: 1873-1279 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03044181.2023.2253677 |
| OpenAlex | W4387956511 |
| Language | EN |
Increased storage capacity was an essential part of demesne farming in England, as many surviving barns indicate. Their size facilitated their use also as winter workplaces for threshing grain and pulses. Another use, although undocumented, was probably wool storage. Church estates in particular invested in them, but the later Middle Ages saw many, mostly smaller, barns built by prospering tenant farmers. They therefore had considerable social as well as commercial significance
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Archaeology · Economics · Geography · Granary · Investment (military · Political science · Politics · Threshing · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |