Rural History

La pesca durant l'edat mitjana a través de les fonts literàries catalanes

by Frederic Aparisi Romero

Fishing in the middle ages is a subject that has interested the Spanish historiography recently. However, a paper... more Fishing in the middle ages is a subject that has interested the Spanish historiography recently. However, a paper about the sources and the work lines that the historianshave to study it has not done yet. This paper is an attempt to revise the sources of Catalan literature produced during the 13th and 15th Centuries trying to concrete the considerations about the fish and fishing in the Crown of Aragon in this period.

Sport, community, class and religion: Rugby league and cultural identity in the Lockyer Valley, Queensland

by John Nauright

co-authored with Damian Topp. Appears in Sporting Traditions 21:1 (2004), 53-65.

Rugby league's history in the Lockyer Valley of Queensland in Australia has been characterised by challenges and... more Rugby league's history in the Lockyer Valley of Queensland in Australia has been characterised by challenges and changes over time that are emblematic of wider trends in Australia as a whole during the first century of Federation. Little has been written about sport in rural Australia and less still is known about the Lockyer Valley, an area that has produced many great players. The main town of the Lockyer Valley is Gatton, which lies 100 kilometres west of Brisbane. The larger centres of Ipswich and Toowoomba lie 40 kilometres to the east and 30 kilometres to the west respectively.

The story of rugby league in the Valley is emblematic of the changes that have taken place in Australian sport over the past century as leagues grew within local communities during the first half of the century, only to fall victim to increased migration to the capital cities, depressed rural economic conditions, sport on television, and the perceived shrinking of distance through improved transportation infrastructure.

Als Gott sein strafendes Schwert über dem dänischen Sahnestück Fünen schwang.

by Karl Peder Pedersen

Tithes and Taxes in Medieval Valencia

by Frederic Aparisi Romero

Ackergeräte, in: Wissensdatenbank (Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Leipzig: online publication), Leipzig 2012, 10 pp.

by Joachim Henning

(Zugriff 29.04.2012)
The artice was once written for the planned "Enzyklopädie zur Frühgeschichte Europas" and has now been published in the internet by Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Leipzig (GWZO)

Did the “agricultural revolution” go east with Carolingian conquest? Some reflections on early medieval rural economics of the Baiuvarii and Thuringi

by Joachim Henning

to be published, in: J. Fries-Knoblach & H. Steuer (eds.), The Bavarians and Thuringians in the Migration Period. An Ethnographic Perspective, Studies in Historical Archaoethnology. International conference in San Marino, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Social Stress (Giorgio Aussenda), September 2004 (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2012) forthcoming

Poblar, de nou, el territori. La carta de poblament de Vilallonga, 1612.

by Frederic Aparisi Romero

El camp valencià a l'edat mitjana

by Frederic Aparisi Romero

L’insediamento di contrada Grammena a Valcorrente tra tardoantico e altomedioevo. La long durée di un sito rurale in provincia di Catania

by Elisa Bonacini

E. Bonacini - M. Turco con appendice di L. Arcifa, in “The Journal of Fasti Online”, n. 251, 2012, ISSN 1828-3179 (www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2012-251.pdf)

L'indagine archeologica, condotta dalla Soprintendenza di Catania nel 2007, ha portato alla luce una fattoria romana,... more L'indagine archeologica, condotta dalla Soprintendenza di Catania nel 2007, ha portato alla luce una fattoria romana, caratterizzata da molteplici fasi di vita (III-VII secolo d.C), nella zona di un precedente insediamento ellenistico. Una basilica a tre navate con nartece è stata costruita, in età tardo-bizantina (VIII sec. d.C. – prima metà del IX sec. d.C.), in parte distruggendo i resti della fattoria e quelli di una di una frequentazione più tarda della zona (VIII sec. d.C.). La basilica è stata modificata più volte, poi trasformata in un deposito amorfo di pietre. La sua planimetria è simile a quella di altri edifici di culto siciliani tradizionalmente datati tra il V e il VI secolo d.C., risultando così ancorata alla tradizione costruttiva della tarda antichità. La centralità dell’insediamento (posto non lontano dall’acquedotto romano che attraversava questa zona e accanto a una viabilità di lunga percorrenza in uso dall'epoca romana a quella tardo-medievale) spiega la continuità di vita di questo insediamento.

The archaeological survey, carried out by the Superintendence of Catania in 2007, has unearthed a Roman farm, characterized by multiple life stages (3rd-7th centuries AD), in the area of a previous Hellenistic settlement (4th-2nd centuries BC). A basilica with three aisles and a narthex was built, in late-Byzantine ages (8th-first half of 9th century AD), partially destroying the farm’s remains and those one of a later frequentation of the area (8th century AD). The basilica was modified several times, then transformed into an amorphous deposit of stones. The plan (21.90 m E/W x 16.60 m N/S) is framed in a 5x4 squares arithmetic form that includes the narthex and the apse, with a 2:1 ratio for the width of the nave from the aisles, and a metric base dimensioned according to a foot of m. 0.2964, with a base module of m. 4.15 corresponding to 14 ft. This plant is similar to Sicilian religious buildings traditionally dated between 5th and 6th century AD. and thus proves to be anchored to the building tradition of Late Antiquity. The centrality of the settlement (not far from the Roman aqueduct that crossed this area and beside a long-distance road network in use from Roman to Late Middle ages) explains the continuity of life of a settlement which was clearly the junction of this area.

L'Estudi de la Masia Catalana. Difusió dels resultats d'una recerca

by Josep Font Sentias

"Revista d'Etnologia de Catalunya". núm. 38 feb. 2011. Departament de Cultura. Generalitat de Catalunya

Some help to the people and to the markets: Greek agricultural cooperatives as an institutional intervention (1914-1936)

by Catherine Brégianni

15th European Business History Association Annual Conference, Athens 24-26 August 2011

Συνεταιριστικά δίκτυα στη διαχείριση της αγροτικής πίστης (1914-1940). Ουτοπία, ιδεολογική κατασκευή ή «εργαλείο» αγροτικής πολιτικής;» = Cooperative networks for the agricultural credit's organisation. 1914-1940. Utopia, ideological ''construction'' or implementation of the central agricultural policy?

by Catherine Brégianni

in Proceedings of the Conference The Greek rural society and economy during the interwar Venizelist period, edit. by D. Panagiotopoulos, D. P. Sotiropoulos, Athens, Agricultural University of Athens/National Research Foundation «Eleftherios Venizelos», 2007, p. 89-110. In Greek

Οικονομία και κοινωνία στη Νότια Πελοπόννησο. Το δίκτυο της αγροτικής πίστης στη δεκαετία του 1930 = Economy and society in Southern Peloponnesus. The network of agricultural credit in the 30's

by Catherine Brégianni

in Νότια Πελοπόννησος, South Peloponnesus, ed. G. Karakatsianis, Athens, Alfeiosς, 2009, p. 103-126.

Het lichaam van het dorp. Publieke schuld op het Hollandse platteland rond 1500

by Jaco Zuijderduijn

Published in Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis 5 (2008) 107-132
In dutch

Public debt soared in the late-medieval Low Countries: towns borrowed considerable sums from creditors and often ended... more Public debt soared in the late-medieval Low Countries: towns borrowed considerable sums from creditors and often ended up defaulting on their financial obligations. The author uses a tax inquiry from 1514 to demonstrate that villages also managed to create funded debt, which they secured on the public body
of the village. As a result, around 1500 the majority of the villages in Holland owed annuities to local and foreign creditors. This public debt was particularly contracted to be able to pay taxes to the sovereign, but it also allowed villages
to invest in water management and mills and to protect themselves against encroachments by noblemen and towns. Thus they could use their access to capital markets to defend the interests of the public body and its members. Furthermore,
the possibilities villages had to borrow and the conditions against
which these loans were contracted, tell us a lot about the level of sophistication of capital markets in late-medieval Holland.

“Tiaris” di cjase. Terrecotte di casa

by Gabriele Caiazza

published in: Ceramiche, terrecotte, terraglie & porcellane, “Quaderni del Museo di Storia Contadina”, 5, ed. M. Mauro, Pagnacco (UD) 2006, pp. 7-11

From 20 May to 29 October 2006, the Museum of Rural History in Fontanabona of Pagnacco (Udine) is hosting the... more From 20 May to 29 October 2006, the Museum of Rural History in Fontanabona of Pagnacco (Udine) is hosting the exhibition "Faience, crockery, pottery & porcelain": so the fifth Notebook has the purpose to support the visitor in the expository path, but also the aim to catalog an important section of the museum assets, consisting of household goods obtained by processing of the clay. This short essay brings the reader back to the past where the kitchen was the main room of the friulian 'cjase' (home), including earthenware of every type, shape, size and function: unforgettable 'remnants' of a past much closer than you might think…

Dal 20 maggio al 29 ottobre del 2006 il Museo di Storia Contadina di Fontanabona di Pagnacco (Udine) ospita la mostra “Ceramiche, terrecotte, terraglie & porcellane”: il quinto Quaderno nasce allo scopo di affiancare il visitatore nel percorso espositivo, ma anche con l’intento di catalogare una sezione importante del patrimonio museale, composta di oggetti domestici ottenuti dalla lavorazione dell’argilla. Nel breve saggio, al lettore si propone un ritorno al tempo in cui la cucina era l’ambiente principale della 'cjase' friulana, fra stoviglie in terracotta d’ogni tipo, forma, dimensione e funzione: indimenticabili 'reperti' di un passato molto meno lontano di quanto s’immagini…

The Christian Village Experiment in Punjab: Social and Religious Re-formation

by Christopher Harding

Conflictos de límites y aprovechamientos comunales: rivalidad concejil e intereses señoriales en la “Extremadura” castellana bajomedieval (El caso de Cuéllar y Peñafiel bajo el señorío del infante Fernando de Antequera)

by Víctor Muñoz Gómez

Published in Carrasco Martínez, Adolfo (ed.), "Conflictos y sociedades en la Historia de Castilla y León", Universidad de Valladolid. Secretariado de Publicaciones e Intercambio, Valladolid, 2010, ISBN 978-84-8448-550-6, pp. 209-233.

La pugna por el aprovechamiento de los recursos agrícolas y forestales disponibles en el territorio ocupado y... more La pugna por el aprovechamiento de los recursos agrícolas y forestales disponibles en el territorio ocupado y articulado por las colectividades humanas ha sido un habitual motivo de disputa entre las mismas a lo largo de todo el Antiguo Régimen, muy especialmente en la Edad Media, en la Europa Occidental. Dentro de la Corona de Castilla, los comunes enfrentamientos entre concejos vecinos en torno a la delimitación de los espacios sometidos a la jurisdicción de estas comunidades y a la defensa de la explotación de los mismos por los miembros de aquellas entidades han dejado una importante huella escrita en los archivos, al motivar toda suerte de arbitrajes y dictámenes judiciales que dieran una salida a estas contradicciones, evitando el recurso a las acciones violentas. Un buen ejemplo de ello lo encontramos en los documentos del Archivo Histórico Municipal de Cuéllar (Segovia), que evidencian esta intensa competencia entre el concejo de esta villa y su “tierra” y los de las villas circundantes a partir del siglo XIII.

Analizar el conjunto de las relaciones e intereses entrelazados en torno al control de los términos concejiles y sus recursos en este ámbito de la Extremadura castellana a partir del ejemplo de Cuéllar exigiría un trabajo de una notable profundidad. Esta comunicación no propone un objetivo tan ambicioso. Sin embargo, en relación con esta cuestión, pretendemos abordar un ejemplo concreto de estos pleitos de límites: el que opuso a las villas de Cuéllar y Peñafiel entre 1396 y 1403. Puesto que ambas villas pertenecían al estado señorial del infante D. Fernando de Antequera y de su esposa Leonor de Alburquerque, a partir del mismo no sólo es posible escenificar el tipo de conflicto que se generaba en estas situaciones. Así, el factor de sujeción a una misma estructura señorial introduce unas condiciones diferenciables que es necesario valorar. De este modo, veremos cómo, los condicionantes de este tipo de disputas, los medios de resolución de las mismas y las consecuencias a aquellas aparejadas, no sólo dependen de los intereses de carácter local vinculados a la vecindad entre concejos, sino también de los objetivos del poder señorial superior y de las formas de relación entre agente dominante y dominados.

An Economy of Words: Emma Chadwick Stretch's Account Book Diary, 1859-1860

by Kathryn Carter

O Brasil no mundo rural doente: A construção do agricultor na literatura em dois momentos da história brasileira (1914 e 1970)

by Jo Klanovicz

published in 'Luso Brazilian Review", v.44, 1, 2007: 45-60.

This article focuses on thematic and textual coincidences between the fiction of Monteiro Lobato (Jeca Tatu, 1914) and... more This article focuses on thematic and textual coincidences between the fiction of Monteiro Lobato (Jeca Tatu, 1914) and educational materials prepared by the Secretaria da Agricultura do Rio Grande do Sul (Cartilha do agricultor, 1970) in the construction of the character of the rural worker. Such parallels point to a persistent representation, on the part of the Brazilian elite, of rural areas as backward and "ill." In order to provide a context for this discussion, I sketch the Western discourse on the body and illness and recapitulate influential Brazilian arguments concerning the backwardness of the countryside.

The Families Behind the Worm Tales: the Conyers and Lambtons, 1350-1650

by Alex Brown

Cleveland History, 100 (2011)