Presentation

This project aims to bring together archaeologists and historians. It will study the standards of living of peasant households as documented by archaeology and texts and according to various ‘production modes’. It will also documents the way their economical strategies had an impact upon the surrounding landscape.

Expected output of the project:

1° crossed workshops, lectures and winter schools in Oxford and Brussels
2° the collective writing of a book offering an overall synthesis of the work

Promoters

  • Jean-Pierre Devroey and Alexis Wilkin, Centre sociAMM (Sociétés anciennes, médiévales et modernes), ULB
  • Chris Wickham, Faculty of History, University of Oxford