Dartmoor's alluring uplands : transhumance and pastoral management in the Middle Ages /: transhumance and pastoral management in the Middle Ages. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Harold Fox ; edited and introduced by Matthew Tompkins and Christopher Dyer.
• Authors: Fox, H. S. A
• Editors: Tompkins, Matthew; Dyer, Christopher, 1944-
• Contents: ; List of Colour Plates ; ; List of Figures ; ; List of Tables ; ; Editors’ Acknowledgements ; ; Abbreviations ; ; Introduction by Christopher Dyer and Matthew Tompkins; ; 1. Definitions and limitations ; ; Defining Dartmoor’s resources; ; Dartmoor and its parts; ; Transhumance and its types; ; Limitations of this book; ; 2. The red tides: impersonal transhumance and the central moor ; ; The central moor: ownership and commoners; ; Distances travelled and middlemen; ; Pastoral management: the herdsman’s year; ; Livestock: numbers and types; ; 3. The red tides: impersonal transhumance and the outer moors ; ; Ownership and commoners; ; Pastoral management: drifts, structures, strays; ; Perambulation and dispute resolution; ; Order and disorder: outer moors and the central moor; ; 4. Personal transhumance: distant detachments ; ; Cockington and Dewdon; ; Ipplepen, Abbotskerswell and their links; ; Detached parts of the hundreds of Exminster, Wonford and Kerswell; ; Kenton with Heatree; ; Paignton and its parts; ; Lifton and Sourton; ; Northlew, Venn and Lettaford; ; Tavistock and Cudlipp; ; Bickleigh and Sheepstor; ; The significance of the detachments; ; 5. Personal transhumance: archaeology, topography, place-names; ; and history ; ; Archaeology and topography; ; Place-names and history: economy and society; ; 6. Domesday Book and beyond: the transition from personal to impersonal transhumance ; ; The role of colonists; ; The role of lords; ; The role of the Crown; ; 7. Dartmoor and beyond ; ; Droveways; ; Pastoral husbandry; ; The implications of transhumance for lowland farming; ; Conclusion by Christopher Dyer and Matthew Tompkins; ; Notes ; ; Bibliography ; ; Index ;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Exeter : University of Exeter Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 636.08409423530902; Transhumance -- England -- Dartmoor -- History -- To 1500
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780859899109
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.