Author: Joseph Charles PhilpotPublisher: Gospel Standard Publications
ISBN: 9780903556231
Category : Devotional calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Ears from Harvested Sheaves
Author: Joseph Charles PhilpotPublisher: Gospel Standard Publications
ISBN: 9780903556231
Category : Devotional calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Ears from harvested sheaves; or, Daily portions, selected from the works of J.C. Philpot by his daughters
Author: Joseph Charles PhilpotPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Sower
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Author: The King's Daughters
Author: Publisher: Gospel Standard Publications
ISBN: 9781897837245
Category : Christian women
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Signs of the Times, and Doctrinal Advocate and Monitor
Author: Two Oxen Ahead
Author: Paul HalsteadPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118819292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
TWO OXEN AHEAD This revealing study of farming practices in societies around the Mediterranean draws out the valuable contribution that knowledge of recent practices can make to our understanding of husbandry in prehistoric and Greco-Roman times. It reflects increased academic interest in the formative influence of farming regimes on the societies they were designed to feed. The author’s intensive research took him to farming communities around the Mediterranean, where he recorded observational and interview data on differing farming strategies and practices, many of which can be traced back to classical antiquity or earlier. The book documents these variables, through the annual chaîne opératoire (from ploughing and sowing to harvesting and threshing), interannual schemes of crop rotation and husbandry, and the generational cycle of household development. It traces the interdependence of these successive stages and explores how cultural tradition, ecological conditions, and access to resources shape variability in husbandry practice. Each chapter identifies ways in which heuristic use of data on recent farming can shed light on ancient practices and societies.
Peasants Making History
Author: Christopher DyerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198847211
Category : Peasants
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Peasants have been despised, underrated, or disregarded in the past. Historians and archaeologists are now giving them a more positive assessment, and in Peasants Making History, Christopher Dyer sets a new agenda for this kind of study. Using as his example the peasants of the west midlands of England, Dyer examines peasant society in relation to their social superiors (their lords), their neighbours, and their households, and finds them making decisions and taking options to improve their lives. In their management of farming, both cultivation of fields and keeping of livestock, they made a series of modifications and some dramatic changes, not just reacting to shifts in circumstances but also devising creative initiatives. Peasants played an active role in the development of towns, both by migrating into urban settings, but also by trading actively in urban markets. Industry in the countryside was not imposed on the rural population, but often the result of peasant enterprise and flexibility. If we examine peasant attitudes and mentalities, we find them engaging in political life, making a major contribution to religion, recognizing the need to conserve the environment, and balancing the interests of individuals with those of the communities in which they lived. Many features of our world have medieval roots, and peasants played an important part in the development of the rural landscape, participation of ordinary people in government, parish church buildings, towns, and social welfare. The evidence to support this peasant-centred view has to be recovered by imaginative interpretation, and by using every type of source, including the testimony of archaeology and landscape.
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