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Scottish Monastic Landscapes, D. Hall: 1st Edition: Archaeology & Anthropology
Scottish Monastic Landscapes, D. Hall: 1st Edition: Archaeology & Anthropology
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Scottish Monastic Landscapes
By Derek Hall.
Published by Tempus Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2006. First edition. Colour printed paperback, 222 pages. Black & white and colour photographs and illustrations throughout.
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The major monastic orders had a significant influence upon the landscape of Scotland. Recent research shows just how entrepreneurial they were and how they were responsible for the first real revolutions in agricultural and industrial matters.
This book examines the effects that their intensive sheep and cattle farming, lead mining, salt panning and coal mining have had on the modern landscape and suggests that the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century industrial revolution was based on the much earlier exploitation of these resources by the Scottish monasteries. It also produces new evidence
of the extent to which the monasteries were involved in the care for the sick. This is an important companion volume to James Bond's award-winning Monastic Landscapes, which covers England and Wales.
Derek Hall is Deputy Director of SUAT, an independent contracting archaeological unit, and has worked in the field for 30 years. In the recent past he was seconded as an Inspector of Historic Monuments for Historic Scotland. He has extensive research interests in Scottish medicval pottery, medieval hospitals and monastic granges. He currently lives in Perth.
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