Medieval Agriculture, the Southern French Countryside, and the Early Cistercians: A Study of 43 Monasteries Transactions, American Philosophical Socie (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780871697653)

This is a print on demand publication. A study of medieval ag., of the rural world of southern France, & of the early corporate farms of the new religious order of Citeaux, founded in Burgundy in 1098 & imported into southern France in the mid-12th cent. It is a study of the agriculture & pastoralism practiced by the white monks, as the Cistercians were called, in a region which is both vast & varied in topography, climate, & custom. Assesses that order's contributions to southern-French economic development in the 12th & 13th cent. The Cistercians did not acquire lands for their newly consolidated farms -- the granges -- through clearance & reclamation of unoccupied lands, but rather through the careful purchase & reorg. of holdings which had often had a long history of cultivation. Maps & tables.

Author: Constance H. Berman
ISBN-10: 0871697653
ISBN-13: 9780871697653
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1986
Pages: 179
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.50d