Landscapes and Producers in Medieval England
Essays presented to Rosamond Faith
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- Paperback
- Release Date
1 May 2026
Summary
Dr Rosamond Faith is a leading historian of the English peasantry in the early and central Middle Ages. In a series of influential studies, she has uncovered the basic structures of rural society, revealing how economic organisation, physical environment, and ideology shaped the lives of ordinary people in the earliest documented centuries.
In this Festschrift, friends and colleagues take up her theme, offering new perspectives on people who worked for a living between the se…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781912260744 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1912260743 |
| Author: | Richard Purkiss, Hannah Boston |
| Publisher: | University of Hertfordshire Press |
| Imprint: | University of Hertfordshire Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 170mm x 244mm |
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Critics Review
“This book is not just a celebration of one of the most interesting medieval historians of our time; it is a working through of the radical implications of her work.”
–Professor Mark Gardiner, University of Lincoln“Many of the contributors offer touching personal acknowledgements of Ros Faith’s influence on their work, usually citing hours of productive conversations whether in her kitchen, at the pub, or along muddy footpaths. The result is a fitting tribute to a distinguished historian and a kindly human being.”
–Mark Bailey “The Local Historian”Richard Purkiss
Richard Purkiss is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Manchester. He wrote his doctoral thesis on East Anglia in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and works mainly on English society and government in the late Anglo-Saxon period.
Hannah Boston is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Lincoln. Her research covers regional societies, lordship, and loyalty in England between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries.
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