Monastic Landscapes

ISBN: 9780752414409

出版社: Trafalgar Square

出版年: 2003-12

页数: 240

定价: $ 50.85

装帧: Pap

内容简介

Many monasteries were endowed with extensive properties to provide sustenance and income for the community. Since they could maintain continuity of ownership in a way that no secular landlord could achieve, they had the opportunity to invest some capital in major modifications to the landscape. By improving agriculture, clearing and managing woodland, building houses, barns and churches, constructing mills and fisheries, replanning villages and founding new towns, the influence of monastic power can clearly be seen from a close survey of the modern landscape.