Medieval Rural Settlement

Neil Christie is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the School of Archaeology & Ancient History at the University of Leicester and has a sizeable publication record exploring themes ranging from Late Antiquity to late Roman and early medieval urbanism, rural transformations across AD 400–1200, and defence. Publications include many monographs and edited works, notably the first edition (co-edited with Paul Stamper) of Medieval Rural Settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800–1600 (2012). He has wide field experience, including in Italy, Spain and England, with a major AHRC-funded project centred on the historic townscape and landscape of Wallingford (Oxon). He has long connections with the Medieval Settlement Research Group (MSRG), serving for extended spells as both Secretary and Reviews Editor. Paul Stamper worked first in the 1980s for VCH Shropshire, then for 20 years with English Heritage/Historic England, and since 2016 as a freelance heritage consultant. He has been a member of the Medieval Settlement Research Group since the 1970s, and is a past President. Alongside the day job he has excavated on a number of medieval village sites, notably Wharram Percy, and taught landscape history at universities including Bristol and Leicester. He is also a Visiting Faculty at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Virginia, USA). With Neil Christie he co-edited the first edition of Medieval Rural Settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800–1600 (2012). Until 2015, Stuart Wrathmell was head of the Archaeology, Archive and Ecology Services for West Yorkshire. He has been a member of the MSRG and its predecessor groups for over 50 years, serving recently as its President, and currently as a Vice-President. He has published numerous articles and monographs on rural settlements, most recently on evidence for Scandinavian settlement in Yorkshire during the late 9th and 10th centuries. He edited the definitive publications of the deserted medieval village excavations at Wharram Percy, North Yorkshire, culminating in the 13th volume in the series A History of Wharram Percy and its Neighbours, published in 2012.

• Foreword – Dawn Hadley Editors’ AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsThe MSRGList of FiguresList of TablesPart I – Contexts, Chronologies and Forms1. Introduction: Medieval Rural Settlement Research: Emergence, Examination and Engagement Neil Christie, Mark Gardiner and Paul Stamper 2. The Development of the Study of Medieval Rural Settlements, 1880–2025Christopher Dyer and Paul Everson3. Methodological Approaches to Medieval Rural Settlements and Landscapes Stephen Rippon, Della Hooke and Elaine Jamieson 4. The Prehistory of Medieval Farms and Villages and the Impact of the Scandinavians, c. AD 800 to 1000 Dawn Hadley and Gabor Thomas5. Seigneurial and Elite Sites in the Medieval Landscape Oliver H. Creighton and Duncan W. Wright Part II – Regional and National Surveys6. South-East England: Forms and Diversity in Medieval Rural Settlement Andrew Margetts7. Central Southern England: Medieval Rural Settlement and Land UseDavid A. Hinton8. Medieval Rural Settlements of South-West England Sam Turner, Rob Wilson-North and Peter Herring9. Wales: Rural Settlements and Land Use, c. AD 800–1500Rhiannon Comeau with Andrew Seaman10. Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex: Medieval Rural Settlement in ‘Greater East Anglia’ Edward Martin11. Medieval Settlements in Rural Cambridgeshire: New InsightsSusan Oosthuizen, with Carenza Lewis12. The Western Midlands: Rural Settlements in the Middle AgesBenjamin Morton and Christopher Dyer13. Medieval Rural Settlement in the Eastern Midlands: Reviewing Recent Investigations, New Thinking and Emerging ThemesCarenza Lewis, with Mathew Morris and Paul Stamper14. Northern England: The Origins and Development of Medieval Rural CommunitiesStuart Wrathmell, with John Castling and David Jones15. Scotland’s Medieval Countryside: Evidence, Interpretation, Perception John A. Atkinson and Chris Dalglish, with Elaine Jamieson16. Ireland: Medieval Identities, Settlement and Land Use Audrey HorningPart III – Exploring the Built and Lived Economies and Material Cultures of Medieval Rural Sites and Landscapes17. An Archaeology of Medieval Rural HousesMark Gardiner, with Edward Martin18. Economies of the Medieval Rural Landscape: Fields, Crops and AnimalsMark McKerracher, Susan Oosthuizen and Matilda Holmes, with Fiona Beglane, Bethany Revell and Catherine Smith19. Medieval Material Culture, Rural Communities and Landscapes in England (1100–1550)Ben Jervis and Michael Lewis20. Town and Countryside: Relationships and Resemblances Christopher Dyer and Keith LilleyBibliographyIndex