"Recent archaeological excavations in Scandinavia provide us with a fascinating insight into the household and its function as a social focus for people of different medieval social estates. This book investigates four excavated Swedish sites -- the castles of Saxholmen and Edsh…
Part I. Introduction -- An interdisciplinary approach / Per Lagerås -- Current knowledge on the late-medieval crisis / Per Lagerås -- Societal crisis and environmental change / Per Lagerås -- Part II. Empirical studies -- Abandonment, agricultural change and ecology / Per Lagerå…
In the mid-fourteenth century the Black Death ravaged Europe, leading to a dramatic population drop and social upheavals. Most of the research so far has been based on the study of written sources, and the dominating perspective has been the one of economic history. A different …