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SUMMARY:Woodland and the Medieval Economic Expansion: a Comparative Perspe
 ctive on North-West Europe - Nicolas Shroeder (Université Libre de Bruxel
 les)
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DESCRIPTION:European medieval economic expansion has traditionally been as
 sociated with woodland clearance. Since Marc Bloch\, the concept of grands
  défrichements designates a phase of deforestation between the 11th and 1
 3th c.\, associated with agrarian\, demographic\, urban\, and commercial g
 rowth. Over the last decades\, this notion has been increasingly criticise
 d. Contributions from forest history\, archaeology and palaeoenvironmental
  studies have questioned the real importance and form of medieval deforest
 ation processes. This paper presents these debates and attempts to reasses
 s woodland use and dynamics within the contemporary territory of Belgium. 
 It mobilizes and reinterprets archaeological\, palaeoenvironmental\, and t
 extual evidence\, putting the ‘Belgian’ case within a broader north-we
 st European comparative framework.
LOCATION:Lightfoot Room - St John's College
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