Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Figures XI
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. PART I. Agricultural Development and Diffusion
7. 2. Continuity and Discontinuity of Roman Agricultural Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages 21
8. 3. The Development of Stockbreeding and Herding in Medieval Europe 41
9. 4. Arab and European Agriculture in the Middle Ages: A Case of Restricted Diffusion 62
10. 5. Ecology Versus Economics in Late Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth- Century English Agriculture 76
11. PART II. Rural Society
12. 6. Thunder and Hail over the Carolingian Countryside 111
13. 7. Links Within the Village: Evidence from Fourteenth-Century Eastphalia 138
14. 8. The Material Culture of the Peasantry in the Late Middle Ages: “Image” and “Reality” 163
15. PART III. Literary Representations
16. 9. “A thing most brutish”: The Image of the Rustic in Old French Literature 191
17. 10. Rusticus: Folk-Hero of Thirteenth-Century Picard Drama 205
18. 11. The “Hungry Gap,” Crop Failure, and Famine: The Fourteenth-Century Agricultural Crisis and Piers Plowman 227
19. PART IV. Artistic Representations
20. 12. “When Adam Delved”: Laboring on the Land in English Medieval Art 247
21. 13. The New Image of Peasants in Thirteenth-Century French Stained Glass 277
22. 14. In Due Season: Farm Work in the Medieval Calendar Tradition 309
23. 15. Afterword 337
24. Selective Bibliography 343
25. Contributors 359
26. Index 363
27. Backmatter 372