10. Conserving the “Vert” in Early Modern Sherwood Forest

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Multiple-Use Resource Management in Preindustrial Societies: Pigs, Parks, Game, and Heathlands
7. 1. Controlling Pigs in Countryside and City for Sustainable Medieval Agriculture 31
8. 2. Sustainability and Natural Resource Management at Hesdin, Artois, France, 1302–1329 50
9. 3. Eating Your Game and Having It Too: North-Central Italian Conservation of Game Animals and Birds, 1300–1550 71
10. 4. Sustaining Premodern Heathlands, 1400–1750: Collective Knowledge and Peasant Communities in the Campine, Belgium 100
11. Part II. The Governance of Aquatic Resources: Fishing and Flowing Freshwater
12. 5. Fisheries Regulations in Late Medieval Europe: Authorities, Concerns, Measures 127
13. 6. Managing the Lake Constance Fisheries, ca. 1350–1800 154
14. 7. Keep the Water Flowing! Premodern Swedish Water Management 178
15. Part III. The Deep Roots of Woodland Conservation
16. 8. The Medieval Roots of Woodland Conservation: Northern France and Northwestern Europe, ca. 1100–1500 203
17. 9. Managing Southern French Forests under—and before— Colbert: Between Law and Custom, ca. 1500–1700 230
18. 10. Conserving the “Vert” in Early Modern Sherwood Forest 255
19. 11. Sustainability Prior to Carlowitz’s Sylvicultura? A Study Based on Cases from Schleswig-Holstein 282
20. 12. Traditional Woodland Management, Forest Legislation, and Modern Nature Conservation in East-Central Europe 304
21. Afterword 327
22. Index 345