New Perspectives on the Medieval 'Agricultural Revolution'

Presents new evidence for medieval farming generated by pioneering scientific analyses. These reveal the complex and nuanced stories behind the ploughs, crops, beasts and feasts of early medieval England and parts of the Frankish world, moving beyond conventional narratives of an 'agricultural revolution'.

Helena Hamerow is Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. Her many publications include Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England (OUP 2012) and with D. Hinton and S. Crawford (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology (OUP 2011).

Mark McKerracher is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. His publications include Anglo-Saxon Crops and Weeds: A Case Study in Quantitative Archaeobotany (Archaeopress 2019) and Farming Transformed in Anglo-Saxon England: Agriculture in the Long Eighth Century (Windgather Press 2018).