Woodland and Forests in Medieval Hungary

£48.00
Author:
Péter Szabó
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716947
Paperback:
189pp, Includes 69 figures, maps drawings and photographs. Appendices of data
Sub-series name:
Archaeolingua Central European Series, 2
ISBN 10:
1841716944
BAR number:
S1348
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Description

BOOK DESCRIPTION
In this work the author investigates the pre-Turkish Hungarian landscape and describes how medieval woodland functioned. (Particular attention is given to the woods around Pilis and Bakony.) In combining this with evidence still visible on the ground, the author goes further than seeing trees and woods as mere “environment”. His study in important in that it begins to trace a common tradition of cultural landscapes in north and central Europe, taking into account coppicing, 'royal forests', common and private woodland, pollarding, monastic usages, etc.