The introduction of the horse brought many advantages to medieval English farming, particularly as an improvement to ploughing and hauling. But the replacement of oxen by horses was by no means inevitable, as the situation often depended upon a number of factors not immediately obvious to modern eyes. These factors, which included such environmental aspects as soil types and terrain, are evaluated to see how they affected the decision to use horses and oxen. The introduction of the horse is furthermore examined in relation to farm production, the improvement in marketing, and the development of regionalism; and various theories regarding technological innovation are assessed to see whether this or that innovation acted in a predictable way. Most importantly, the study affords a glimpse into the working of the minds of medieval farmers as they approached the problems of livelihood and survival.
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Technological innovation during the middle ages is a subject about which little has been written in detail. This book traces on particular innovation - the introduction of the horse as a replacement for oxen in English farming - and assesses it against the social and economic background of the time.
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It is possible that a certain difficulty occurs in imagining the introduction of the work-horse as a technological innovation, since, whatever its advantages, the simple substitution of one animal for another might appear to be technologically irrelevant. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
animal heriots, peasant draught animals, demesne managers, draught stock, principalia lists, demesne horses, local assessment rolls, demesne officials, ploughing services, demesne accounts, harrowing horse, virgate holder, more substantial tenants, demesne stock, ploughing speed, foot ploughs, demesne ploughing, demesne ploughs, lay subsidy assessments, whole plough, medieval demesnes, cartularium monasterii, swing ploughs, particular demesne, wheeled ploughs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
East Anglia, Black Death, West Wycombe, Red Book of Worcester, History of Technology, Walter of Henley, Ramsey Abbey, Home Counties, Surtees Soc, Paul's of the Year, Blackbourne Hundred, Domesday Book, Custumals of Battle Abbey, Luttrell Psalter, Liber Henrici de Soliaco, Select Documents, Medieval Oxfordshire Village, Parliamentary Taxes, Sancti Petri Gloucestriae, Abbey of Bec, Agrarian History of England, Journal Royal Agric, Rural England, Bayeux Tapestry, Northern Counties of England New!
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It is possible that a certain difficulty occurs in imagining the introduction of the work-horse as a technological innovation, since, whatever its advantages, the simple substitution of one animal for another might appear to be technologically irrelevant. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
animal heriots, peasant draught animals, demesne managers, draught stock, principalia lists, demesne horses, local assessment rolls, demesne officials, ploughing services, demesne accounts, harrowing horse, virgate holder, more substantial tenants, demesne stock, ploughing speed, foot ploughs, demesne ploughing, demesne ploughs, lay subsidy assessments, whole plough, medieval demesnes, cartularium monasterii, swing ploughs, particular demesne, wheeled ploughs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
East Anglia, Black Death, West Wycombe, Red Book of Worcester, History of Technology, Walter of Henley, Ramsey Abbey, Home Counties, Surtees Soc, Paul's of the Year, Blackbourne Hundred, Domesday Book, Custumals of Battle Abbey, Luttrell Psalter, Liber Henrici de Soliaco, Select Documents, Medieval Oxfordshire Village, Parliamentary Taxes, Sancti Petri Gloucestriae, Abbey of Bec, Agrarian History of England, Journal Royal Agric, Rural England, Bayeux Tapestry, Northern Counties of England New!
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