Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England (Medieval History and Archaeology) - Hardcover
A book centring on late Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman canals may come as a surprise; it is generally assumed that no such things existed. Persuasive evidence has, however, been unearthed independently by several scholars, and has stimulated this first serious study of improved waterways in England between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. England is naturally well-endowed with a network of navigable rivers, especially the easterly systems draining into the Thames, Wash, and Humber. The central middle ages saw innovative and extensive development of this network, including the digging of canals bypassing difficult stretches of rivers, or linking rivers to important production centres. The eleventh and twelfth centuries seem to have been the high point for this dynamic approach to water-transport: after 1200, the improvement of roads and bridges increasingly diverted resources away from the canals, many of which stagnated with the reassertion of natural drainage patterns.
This new perspective has an important bearing on the economy, landscape, settlement patterns, and inter-regional contacts of medieval England. In this volume, economic historians, geographers, geomorphologists, archaeologists, and place-name scholars bring their various skills to bear on a neglected but important aspect of medieval engineering and economic growth.
This new perspective has an important bearing on the economy, landscape, settlement patterns, and inter-regional contacts of medieval England. In this volume, economic historians, geographers, geomorphologists, archaeologists, and place-name scholars bring their various skills to bear on a neglected but important aspect of medieval engineering and economic growth.
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John Blair is Lecturer in Modern History and Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at Queen's College, Oxford.
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"While Waterways and Canal Building in Medieval England is a book for specialists in the history of our countryâs waterways, there is also much to find of interest for the general reader... There has been much research into this fascinating subject over the past 20 years, and this is most likely continuing." -- Elizabeth Rogers, Tow Path Talk
John Blair is Lecturer in Modern History and Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at Queen's College, Oxford.
"While Waterways and Canal Building in Medieval England is a book for specialists in the history of our countryâs waterways, there is also much to find of interest for the general reader... There has been much research into this fascinating subject over the past 20 years, and this is most likely continuing." -- Elizabeth Rogers, Tow Path Talk
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0199217157
- ISBN 13 9780199217151
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
- EditorBlair John
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