Deserted Villages Revisited
ISBN: 9781905313969
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University Of Hertfordshire Press
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Subjects: History;

Assembling leading experts on the subject, this account explores the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of thousands of villages and smaller settlements in England and Wales between 1340 and 1750. By revisiting the deserted villages, this breakthrough study addresses questions that have plagued archaeologists, geographers, and historians since the 1940s--including why they were deserted, why some villages survived while others were abandoned, and who was responsible for their desertion--offering a series of exciting insights into the fate of these fascinating sites.

Christopher Dyer is the Professor of Regional and Local History and the head of the Center for English Local History at the University of Leicester. Richard Jones is a lecturer in landscape history at the University of Leicester. He previously worked for the Sussex Archaeological Society and for the University of Cardiff.

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