A Breton Landscape: From The Romans To The

This is a case study of changing land-use patterns in Brittany over nearly 2000 years.

Grenville Astill is Reader in Archaeology at the University of Reading Wendy Davies is Professor of History and Pro-Provost (European Affairs) at University College London

List of figures

x

(5)

List of tables

xv

(2)

Preface

xvii

(2)

Abbreviations

xix

PART 1: THE APPROACH

3

(58)

1 The problematic

3

(7)

2 Method and methodology

10

(23)

Archives

10

(5)

Archaeological survey

15

(6)

Fieldwalking

16

(2)

Excavation strategy

18

(3)

Archaeological environmental work

21

(1)

Standing buildings

22

(5)

APPENDIX A: Principal archives consulted

27

(1)

APPENDIX B: A note on refuse disposal and manuring

28

(5)

3 Context

33

(28)

Geography and geology

33

(22)

The survey area

36

(3)

The region in historic time

39

(9)

The region now

48

(4)

The survey area

52

(3)

APPENDIX: A note on parishes and communes

55

(6)

PART 2: CHANGING LAND-USE IN THE LANDSCAPE OF EAST BRITTANY

61

(195)

4 Romans and provincials

61

(30)

Prehistory

61

(9)

Later prehistory

63

(4)

Wider perspectives

67

(3)

Roman settlement

70

(9)

Roman arable

77

(2)

The wider Roman context

79

(12)

Change in the Roman countryside

85

(6)

5 The problem of the early middle ages

91

(25)

The ninth century

92

(7)

Fabric 10

99

(8)

The impact of Redon

107

(3)

Possibilities

110

(6)

6 Nobles and peasants

116

(33)

Castles and towns

116

(3)

The importance of pottery

119

(8)

Land-use and settlement

119

(5)

Settlement pattern

124

(3)

Opening up new lands

127

(10)

Land-use and settlement

127

(5)

Settlement pattern

132

(2)

Nobles and peasants

134

(3)

A different world

137

(10)

APPENDIX: A note on metairies

147

(2)

7 Landscaping

149

(17)

Changing land-use and settlement shift

149

(5)

New lands

149

(3)

Settlement shift

152

(2)

Sixteenth-century transformations

154

(12)

Chateau landscaping

155

(11)

8 Rising population

166

(31)

Archives and land-use

167

(3)

Population

170

(13)

Mortality

171

(5)

Changes in population over time

176

(7)

Post-medieval pottery

183

(14)

Land-use and pottery distribution

186

(3)

Accumulations of sherds

189

(4)

Refuse disposal

193

(4)

9 Work and housing

197

(23)

Settlement and buildings

197

(10)

Settlement

197

(3)

Houses

200

(4)

The dynamic of settlement change

204

(3)

Work

207

(4)

Pre-industrial society

211

(8)

APPENDIX: A note on settlement types and terminology

219

(1)

10 After the Revolution

220

(21)

The population

221

(3)

Settlement and buildings

224

(4)

Pottery

228

(5)

Land-use

233

(4)

Land, product and work

237

(4)

11 The Longue Duree

241

(15)

Methods

241

(2)

The core in regional context

243

(3)

Long-term trends

246

(8)

Population

246

(1)

Landscape

247

(1)

Settlement

248

(3)

Landscape, land-use and settlement

251

(3)

Rapid changes

254

(2)

Bibliography

256

(8)

Index

264

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