NORTHWEST EUROPE IN THE NINTH CENTURY; ITS GEOGRAPHY IN LIGHT OF THE POLYPTYQUES
Norman J. G. Pounds
ABSTRACT During the ninth century a number of monasteries in Northwestern Europe compiled inventories, or polyptyques, their estates. Eight such polyptques are here examined for light which they throw on human geography area at this time, including types rural settlement, kinds field systems, and varieties crops. Some regional characteristics have been prominent more recent times found to taking shape movement commerce seen greater than has sometimes supposed.
Annals of The Association of American Geographers