Assignment 4

The assignment for the next class, on Wednesday 5th November (the week of the 29th is half-term and there is no class) is focused on the Medieval countryside.  Take a look at Carenza Lewis’s lengthy but excellent account of the Middle Ages in the East Midlands, download from here.

• What are the key themes for the countryside? (eg nucleation of settlement, open field origins, settlement desertion, etc)
• Identify one or two key sites that Carenza uses to illustrate one theme and find out as much as you can about those sites.  Do you agree with her ideas and analysis? Why/why not?