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Life on the Farm in Medieval Jerusalem

By Walker, Bethany J.

Life on the Farm in Medieval Jerusalem Social Sciences

Life on the Farm in Medieval Jerusalem

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Studies of Jerusalem in the post-classical periods have traditionally centered, unsurprisingly, on the Old City, isolating it from the regional setting in which it operated on a daily basis. The agricultural hinterland of Jerusalem-comprising a network of smaller settlements, agricultural terraces, fields, cisterns, watch towers, and local marketplaces that together fed the city-has not been a focus of archaeological research until very recently.
Life on the Farm in Late Medieval Jerusalem offers a rare glimpse into the daily life of a single rural household and its intimate, but ever-evolving, relationship with Jerusalem from the 14th to the early 20th centuries. It does so through a tightly integrated, multi-disciplinary study of the astonishingly well-preserved remains of a village in its agricultural setting, showing how both settlement and farmland developed together over time, and how these changes impacted the socio-economic development of Jerusalem during the Mamluk and Ottoman sultanates. The life history of this place is written on the basis of archaeological, botanical, and geological data, all interpreted against a rich textual record of land sales, field development, conflict, and cooperation.
Product details
Number of Pages:
386
Release Date:
2025-03-01
Publication Date:
2025-10-15
Publisher:
Equinox Publishing Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
180050554X
ISBN13:
9781800505544
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
1447 g
Height:
208 cm
Width:
260 cm
Thickness:
29 cm
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