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Papers stemming from 1982 conference in Oxford: R T Rowley (p 1), Introduction; P H Sawyer (3-6), The Anglo-Norman village; B K Roberts (7-25), Village patterns and forms; some models for discussion; C C Dyer (27-32), Power and conflict in the medieval village [reality of community; its functions and powers; complexity of relationships village-manor-parish]; P D A Harvey (33-45), Mapping a village: the historical evidence [even full documents can mislead over detailed layouts]; R K Morris (46-60), The church in the countryside: two lines of inquiry [suggests minimum of 4500 churches by late 11th century - postulates ephemeral pre-parochial class of church]; D N Hall (61-9), Late Saxon topography and early medieval estates [recovery of field systems layout and thence tenurial arrangement]; D Austin (71-9), Dartmoor and the upland villages of the southwest of England [critique of Houndtor interpretations, and affirmation of 12th-14th century date for such settlements]; M A Aston (80-100), Rural settlement in Somerset: some preliminary thoughts [origins of nucleated settlements - villages probably arise in early medieval or (perhaps) Late Saxon times], C J Bond (101-23), Medieval Oxfordshire villages and their topography: a preliminary discussion [data offer little support for RB-med settlement continuity - large nucleated villages follow a period of shifting settlement; very diverse plans]; D Hooke (125-54), Village development in the West Midlands [contrasts, partly environmentally based, between different sectors of region]; G R J Jones (155-69), Forms and patterns of medieval settlement in Welsh Wales [special reference to lawbooks and tenurial patterns]; Mary A Atkin (170-85), Some settlement patterns in Lancashire [especially those related to pairs of large oval enclosures and drove-road network - arable/pastoral, vaccaries, etc]; D G Lockhart (187-99), Some aspects of the evolution of small towns and villages in Scotland [particular reference to burghs of barony, kirktowns, and seatowns; contra Caird, much of Scotland's rural landscape represents survival of older forms of settlement]; J G Hurst (200-13), The Wharram Research Project: problem orientation and strategy 1950-1990 [medieval village set in prehistoric or RB framework; whole parish under study]; P A Rahtz (205-13), Wharram Percy research strategies [eight themes for a systemic approach, and a project management scheme]; P A Rahtz (214-23), Wharram Percy memorial stones: an anthropological view from Mars [inscriptions as clue to belief system and socio-economic positions of Earthpersons]. |