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The evolution of Highland townships during the medieval and early modern periods
This paper considers how Highland townships changed over the medieval and early modern periods. It examines both structural and sectoral change. As regards the former, it draws the basic distinction between large and small townships but argues that ongoing processes of township disaggregation and aggregation blurred this distinction, creating a range of complex, hybrid forms. As regards the latter, it argues that we need to clarify the different ways in which townships were sectored. Many townships were fashioned around infields that comprised small detached blocks of arable so that the imposition of assessment can be seen as imposing a unity of status on them, as well bringing them within a single scheme of husbandry. However, in some instances, fieldnames belie internal differences within infield that may hint at still older differences in status and meaning. Expansion beyond infield was distinguished by its non-assessed status, but equally, we need to understand how expansion reduced the flow of nutrients from pasture to arable, forcing adjustments in husbandry that helped to underpin emerging differences in status between assessed and non-assessed land.
The evolution of Highland townships during the medieval and early modern periods
This paper considers how Highland townships changed over the medieval and early modern periods. It examines both structural and sectoral change. As regards the former, it draws the basic distinction between large and small townships but argues that ongoing processes of township disaggregation and aggregation blurred this distinction, creating a range of complex, hybrid forms. As regards the latter, it argues that we need to clarify the different ways in which townships were sectored. Many townships were fashioned around infields that comprised small detached blocks of arable so that the imposition of assessment can be seen as imposing a unity of status on them, as well bringing them within a single scheme of husbandry. However, in some instances, fieldnames belie internal differences within infield that may hint at still older differences in status and meaning. Expansion beyond infield was distinguished by its non-assessed status, but equally, we need to understand how expansion reduced the flow of nutrients from pasture to arable, forcing adjustments in husbandry that helped to underpin emerging differences in status between assessed and non-assessed land.
The evolution of Highland townships during the medieval and early modern periods
Dodgshon, Robert A. (author)
Landscape History ; 20 ; 51-63
1998-01-01
13 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Highlands , Township , Assessment , Infield , Land Division
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