Chalk and Cheese?'Fielden' and 'Forest' Communities in Early Modern England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4301113 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neil Davies (0000-0002-8143-3873) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-31 |
| Publication date | 1991-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-6443.1991.tb00114.x |
| OpenAlex | W1999502455 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
This article argues that the conventional division of early modern rural England into 'fielden' and 'forest' regions serves well neither agrarian nor social historians. It is suggested that the 'fielden-forest' model is too blunt an instrument to analyse the diversity of regional farming systems, social structures and landholding patterns. Drawing upon an alternative seven-way classification of agricultural regions, a more open-ended and flexible 'continuum' model is proposed. It is further argued that the new schema offers a more satisfactory way of examining local differences in social and cultural structures than a division into two opposing regional blocks
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Division (mathematics · Division of labour · Economic geography · Geography · Political science · Schema (genetic algorithms · Sociology · Computer Science · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Mathematics · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2019 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |