Plague and Desertion : A Consequence of Anthropogenic Landscape Change? ; Archaeological Studies in Southern Germany
Faculty/Professorship: | Medieval and Post Medieval Archaeology |
Author(s): | Schreg, Rainer ![]() |
Title of the compilation: | The Crisis of the 14th Century : Teleconnections between Environmental and Societal Change? |
Publisher Information: | Bamberg : Otto-Friedrich-Universität |
Year of publication: | 2019 |
Pages: | 26 |
Source/Other editions: | The crisis of the 14th Century : teleconnections between environmental and societal change? / edited by Martin Bauch and Gerrit Jasper Schenk. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]. - 286 Seiten : 57 Illustrationen (Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte ; Band 13) |
Language(s): | English |
DOI: | 10.20378/irb-46923 |
Licence: | Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:473-irb-469239 |
Abstract: | The formation of villages and the introduction of systematic three-field crop rotation transformed the landscape of western central Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. These processes have often been seen as an important progress of the medieval agriculture. This paper examines these developments from the perspective of human ecology. There is some evidence to suggest a connection between village formation and the transformation of the cultural landscape in the High Middle Ages on the one hand and the Black Death in the late Middle Ages on the other. Recent archeological data suggests that these changes to the cultural landscape were in fact major factors in or preconditions for the fourteenth-century crisis. Dorfgenese und Einführung der Dreizelgenwirtschaft haben die Landschaft im westlichen Mitteleuropa im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert massiv verändert. Diese veränderungen galten in der Forschung oft als wichtiger Fortschritt der mittelalterlichen Landwirtschaft. Der beitrag untersucht diese veränderungen aus einer humanökologischen Perspektive und zeigt, dass es Anhaltpunkte dafür gibt, dass die Pestepidemie des Spätmittelalters in gewisser Weise die Folge der Dorfgenese und des Kulturlandschaftswandel im Hochmittelalter gewsen sein könnten. Neue archäologische Beobachtungen lassen jedenfalls vermuten, dass der hochmittelalterliche Kulturlandschaftswandel Faktor und Voraussetzung der Krise des Spätmittelalters war. |
GND Keywords: | Mitteleuropa; Dorf; Kulturlandschaft; Pest; Geschichte 1100-1300 |
Keywords: | village formation, agriculture, 14th century, plague, Dorfgenese, human ecology, Krise des 14. Jahrhunderts |
DDC Classification: | 943 History of Germany |
RVK Classification: | NM 7250 |
Peer Reviewed: | Ja |
International Distribution: | Ja |
Type: | Contribution to an Articlecollection |
URI: | https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/46923 |
Release Date: | 16. December 2019 |
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