The "Flemish" agriculture thus baptized, described and extolled around 1800 was actually bom in the Middle Ages. This agriculture was characterized by an intensive mixed farming, cash-crop based and capitalistic in nature. Its progress took place in stages, marked by the introduction on the open fields of the vicia varieties around 1150, of textile fibers around 1300, of oleaginous crops around 1400. At the beginning of the 14th century, wheat yield reached 20 hectoliters per hectar in the larger landholding units, a figure as high as the one reached in 1800, and 30 hectoliters per hectar in other units. Progress had started around the year 1000 when horses began to be used, and ploughing was generalized. Commerce, already a known phenomeno...
The Cattle Fair in the Vendée in the 18th Century. A Reconstruction of the Rural World. Cattle fai...
Until the third quarter of the XVIIIth century, the Flemish population knew a relatively high prospe...
Since the end of the XVI Nth century, intensive farming regions have suffered from an overpopulation...
The Achievements of a Traditional Agriculture : the Flemish Countryside from the Thirteenth to the E...
While agricultural technology was essentially stagnant in most of Europe during the Late Middle Ages...
Inner Flanders, an agricultural area on the way to specialise. The Flemish farms, of moderate size,...
Abstract. Eighteenth Century Agricultural Production in a Belgian Region. Agricultural productivity ...
Tithes, Wheat Output, and the Agricultural Revolution in Northern France during the Middle Ages. Th...
Abstract. The Expansion of a Commercial Crop : 19th Century Hemp Production in the Bologne Plain. He...
In the 19th century, the bulk of farmwork was still performed by human labour rather than machinery....
With 14 chapters devoted to technical aspects and 8 chapters on social, economic and geographical st...
National audienceLa fin du Moyen Age est une période de réorganisation des terroirs: on glisse, en H...
Agriculture in Lower Normandy has often a traditionnal picture in the common ima- ginery. It deserve...
A study of the Franco-Belgian polder of the «Grande Moëre» with its rural landscapes and its agricul...
From 800 to just before 1350 mills have multiplied. Many disappeared after the plagues, having becom...
The Cattle Fair in the Vendée in the 18th Century. A Reconstruction of the Rural World. Cattle fai...
Until the third quarter of the XVIIIth century, the Flemish population knew a relatively high prospe...
Since the end of the XVI Nth century, intensive farming regions have suffered from an overpopulation...
The Achievements of a Traditional Agriculture : the Flemish Countryside from the Thirteenth to the E...
While agricultural technology was essentially stagnant in most of Europe during the Late Middle Ages...
Inner Flanders, an agricultural area on the way to specialise. The Flemish farms, of moderate size,...
Abstract. Eighteenth Century Agricultural Production in a Belgian Region. Agricultural productivity ...
Tithes, Wheat Output, and the Agricultural Revolution in Northern France during the Middle Ages. Th...
Abstract. The Expansion of a Commercial Crop : 19th Century Hemp Production in the Bologne Plain. He...
In the 19th century, the bulk of farmwork was still performed by human labour rather than machinery....
With 14 chapters devoted to technical aspects and 8 chapters on social, economic and geographical st...
National audienceLa fin du Moyen Age est une période de réorganisation des terroirs: on glisse, en H...
Agriculture in Lower Normandy has often a traditionnal picture in the common ima- ginery. It deserve...
A study of the Franco-Belgian polder of the «Grande Moëre» with its rural landscapes and its agricul...
From 800 to just before 1350 mills have multiplied. Many disappeared after the plagues, having becom...
The Cattle Fair in the Vendée in the 18th Century. A Reconstruction of the Rural World. Cattle fai...
Until the third quarter of the XVIIIth century, the Flemish population knew a relatively high prospe...
Since the end of the XVI Nth century, intensive farming regions have suffered from an overpopulation...