Fox, Harold
Tompkins, Matthew
(ed.)
Dyer, Christopher
(ed.)
Editorial: University of Exeter Press
Número de páginas: 291 págs. 24.5 x 17.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 20-02-2012
EAN: 9780859898652
ISBN: 978-0-85989-865-2
Precio (sin IVA): 46,80 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 48,67 €
In the Middle Ages, intensive practical use was made of Dartmoor’s resources. Its extensive moorlands provided summer pasture for thousands of cattle from the Devon lowlands, which flowed in a seasonal tide, up in the spring and down in the autumn. This book describes, for the first time, the social organisation and farming practices associated with this annual transfer of livestock. It also presents evidence for a previously unsuspected Anglo-Saxon pattern of transhumance in which lowland farmers spent the summers living with their cattle on the moor.