Ruralia IX, 26th September – 2nd October 2011, Götzis, Austria.
The 'Ruralia', Volume 9, includes thirty papers dealing with the various aspects of social and economic hierarchy in the rural settlement in medieval Europe mainly from archaeological point of view. The authors from 15 countries provide a broad overview of the current issues, complemented for the most part by extensive bibliographies. Very important are also the high quality figures. The main topics include the differentiation of rural social and economic structure, reflected, for example, in the building culture and various aspects of everyday life. The topic of discussion is the hierarchy of power and the many ways it is presented in archaeology. The focus is on the manor houses and manorial farms, as well as the grain mills in rural areas and the impact of mining activity. The 'Ruralia', Volume 9 represents one of the current fields of European archaeological research and offers a solid foundation for further comparative studies.
Author(s): Jan Klápště (ed.)
Series: Ruralia, 9
Publisher: Brepols
Year: 2013
Language: English, German, French
Pages: 470
City: Turnhout
Foreword 1
Avant propos 2
Vorwort 3
Sabine Felgenhauer-Schmiedt / Zur Präsenz von Herrschaft im Dorf des Mittelalters in Ostösterreich 5
Herbert Knittler / Molendinum & villa. Überlegungen zu Mühlenstandorten im nördlichen Niederösterreich 13. bis 17. Jahrhundert 23
Benno Furrer / Hierarchies in villages in the Swiss Alps. Even in the cradle of democracy not all men are equal 35
Paolo de Vingo / The hierarchy of power in rural northern Italy after the end of the Roman villa settlement system 49
Claus Kropp – Thomas Meier / Ein historisches Modell in archäologischer Perspektive: 'Grundherrschaft' im älteren Mittelalter 77
Sonja König – Stefan Krabath / Herrschaft im ländlichen Raum Mitteldeutschlands – Mittelalterliche Siedlungen geprägt durch Repräsentation, Fortifikation und wirtschaftliche Aspekte 91
Rainer Schreg / Commons, cooperatives and village communes – geographical and archaeological perspectives on the role of rural lower classes in settlement restructuring on the Swabian Alb plateau 101
Heiko Steuer / Settlements in the southern Black Forest: Castles and mining (dominance through commerce) 123
Heinrich Stiewe / Niederdeutsche Hallenhäuser als Herrenhäuser. Beispiele des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts aus Nordwestdeutschland 139
W. Haio Zimmermann / Depictions of upper-class farmhouses in 15th- to early 17th-century Flemish and Dutch art. Farms with towers and/or stone houses as representations of farms with a higher hierarchical status 163
Édith Peytremann / Identifier les résidences des élites au sein des habitats ruraux du VIe au XIe siècle dans la moitié nord de la France 183
Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo / Archaeology of power and hierarchies in early medieval villages in Northern Spain 199
Jorge A. Eiroa Rodríguez / Hierarchies in the rural settlements of Southeastern al-Andalus 213
Jan van Doesburg / Manors (curtes): new archaeological evidence from the Netherlands 221
Michel Lascaris / Gräben als strukturierende Elemente innerhalb hochmittelalterlicher Dörfer im Süden der Niederlande (1050–1250) 237
Bert Groenewoudt – Jeroen Benders / Private and shared water facilities in rural settlements and small towns. Archaeological and historical evidence from the Netherlands from the medieval and post-medieval periods 245
Linda Shine / Granny castle and its dependent manors: a case-study of late medieval manorial organisation 263
Jill Campbell / Understanding the relationship between manor house and settlement in medieval England 273
James Bond / Medieval settlement hierarchy in West Somerset 285
Mogens Skaaning Høegsberg / Social hierarchies in Norse Greenland. A brief overview of the state of research 303
Mette Svart Kristiansen / Studies on tofts, peasants and hierarchies in medieval rural Denmark – some comments from an archaeological perspective 313
Vibeke Vandrup Martens / The Magnate Farm of Åker. Past, present and future of a farm with central functions 329
Frode Iversen / Big bang, lordship or inheritance? Changes in the settlement structure on the threshold of the Merovingian Period, South-Eastern Norway 341
Anders Håkansson / Beyond the archetypes. Social hierarchies in rural medieval Halland, SW Sweden 359
Nikolaj Makarov / Social elite at rural sites of the Suzdal Region in North-Eastern Rus 371
Sergey Chernov – Ekaterina Erschova / Internal colonization in Russia during the 13th and 14th centuries: three hamlets of the pre-manorial period 387
Miklós Takács / Die Frage der Herrschaft in der mittelalterlichen Siedlungsarchäologie Ungarns. Überblick über eine selten analysierte Problematik in drei zeitlichen Abschnitten 407
Tibor Ákos Rácz / Social differences within rural settlement types in the central area of the Hungarian Kingdom between the 10th and the 14th centuries 423
Csilla Zatykó / Appearance of social hierarchy in village structures: the conclusions of two case studies from Hungary 437
Tomáš Klír / A social-economic interpretation of the regular village layouts in Bohemia and Moravia 447
