Publication Date:
2024-03-23
Description:
The Spade in de Dijk is the first synthesis on the organisation of water management in Coastal Flanders during the later Middle Ages. Based on the unique archival evidence produced by local water boards (wateringen), large landowners and local and regional authorities, Tim Soens argues for the occurrence of profound changes in coastal water management in the later Middle Ages. Water management gradually became less inclusive, investments lowered, and flood risk increased. This evolution was triggered by the social transition from a peasant society of land-owning smallholders to a society of absentee landlords and large tenant farmers.
Keywords:
water management
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middle ages
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water boards
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coastal flanders
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thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Europe::1DDB Belgium
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thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2A Indo-European languages::2AC Germanic and Scandinavian languages::2ACF Flemish
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thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500::3KL c 1000 CE to c 1500
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thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MD 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599
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thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5A Interest age / level::5AX For adult emergent readers
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
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thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTM Maritime history
Language:
Dutch
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