英国农村正处于变革的边缘。随着欧盟补贴的取消、美国式工厂化农业的威胁以及“重装”计划的推广，我们的前景前所未有地充满了不确定性和机遇。我们如何塑造未来的环境，可以通过过去的实践，以及与早已消失的牲畜和景观的接触来了解。
这项研究将考察中世纪英格兰部分地区的牧民生活。它将建议我们如何从被遗忘的管理体制中学习，以了解、塑造和发展我们未来的农村。这部作品关注的是英格兰南部的一个地区，该地区的牧民身份长期以来一直是绵羊牧场经济和中世纪猪栏权利的同义词。中世纪牧民主义的这些方面，因南部丘陵地区的标志性图像和多梅斯代提出的证据而闻名，掩盖了牧民传统，其中牛扮演了重要角色。
中世纪牧民主义的这一方面可以追溯到该地区的历史景观、文献证据和挖掘出的考古遗迹。东南部过去的学者一直非常关注中世纪绵羊的重要性，猪的重要性略低，因此从未对牛的经济进行过系统的研究。这本书代表了一个深入的，多学科的研究，在中世纪的漫长时期的牛的经济，尤其是它在中世纪社会的演变，定居和景观的重要性。它探索了vaccaries的性质和存在，vaccaries是一种地位很高的专业化养牛场。他们生产牛肉、牛奶、奶酪以及中世纪农业所需的生牛。虽然它们最常与野生的北部高地联系在一起，但它们也存在于低地景观以及森林和狩猎区。在全国范围内，中世纪的牛一直是中世纪农业中最重要和被忽视的方面之一。作为混合农业和专业农业经济的一部分，它们帮助塑造了我们今天所知的农村。
The Wandering Herd: The Medieval Cattle Economy of South-East England, c.450-1450
The British countryside is on the brink of change. With the withdrawal of EU subsidies, threats of US style factory farming and the promotion of ‘rewilding’ initiatives, never before has so much uncertainty and opportunity surrounded our landscape. How we shape our prospective environment can be informed by bygone practice, as well as through engagement with livestock and landscapes long since vanished.
This study will examine aspects of pastoralism that occurred in part of medieval England. It will suggest how we learn from forgotten management regimes to inform, shape and develop our future countryside. The work concerns a region of southern England the pastoral identity of which has long been synonymous with the economy of sheep pasture and the medieval right of swine pannage. These aspects of medieval pastoralism, made famous by iconic images of the South Downs and the evidence presented by Domesday, mask a pastoral heritage in which a significant part was played by cattle.
This aspect of medieval pastoralism is traceable in the region’s historic landscape, documentary evidence and excavated archaeological remains. Past scholars of the South-East have been so concerned with the importance of medieval sheep, and to a slightly lesser extent pigs, that no systematic examination of the cattle economy has ever been undertaken. This book represents a deep, multidisciplinary study of the cattle economy over the longue durée of the Middle Ages, especially its importance within the evolution of medieval society, settlement and landscape. It explores the nature and presence of vaccaries, a high status form of specialized cattle ranch. They produced beef stock, milk and cheese and the draught oxen necessary for medieval agriculture. While they are most often associated with wild northern uplands they also existed in lowland landscapes and areas of Forest and Chase. Nationally, medieval cattle have been one of the most important and neglected aspects of the agriculture of the medieval period. As part of both a mixed and specialized farming economy they have helped shape the countryside we know today.
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