Origins and Early History

Dumolyn, Jan; Declercq, Georges; Meijns, Brigitte; Hillewaert, Bieke; Hollevoet, Yann; Ryckaert, Marc; Clercq, Wim De

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“…Internationally, the high medieval period is considered as a period in which people started to make deliberate decisions related to the inten- sification and systematisation of land use and reclamations (Williams 2000). From the 9 th century onwards, the County of Flanders had witnessed an increasing urban development and population growth (Nicholas 1992: 107-109;Verhulst 1999: 113-118;Dumolyn et al 2018a). In order to answer the growing need for more cultivated lands, the 10 th to 13 th century were characterised by an intensified use and an increasingly systematic exploitation of the landscape ( Verhulst 1965( Verhulst , 1995Nicholas 1992, 101-107;Thoen 2007;Thoen & Soens 2015).…”

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Nieuw-Roeselare – landscape archaeological and historical geographical research on deserted medieval settlements in the borderlands of Flanders and Zealand

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This paper offers an introduction to the renewed landscape archaeological and historical geographical research on the lost village of Nieuw-Roeselare. Despite being the first site to be studied as a Deserted Medieval Settlement in modern-day Flanders, little is known about the village and its relation to the surrounding landscape. Nieuw-Roeselare is presented as a case study on lost and deserted medieval settlements in the context of the research history on the topic in both Flanders and Zealand. Past historical geographical and archaeological research at the site is described and the ongoing and future research is presented along with its potential for landscape studies and planning.

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“…The County of Flanders (Figure ) was the most urbanized and densely populated region of medieval northern Europe (Dumolyn et al, ; Thoen & Soens, ; Verhulst, ). The large number of important towns and growing population of city dwellers had a strong impact on the rural economy, landscapes and settlements, especially during the Great Reclamation Period (10–13th century).…”

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Lost but revived. Revisiting the medieval village of Nieuw‐Roeselare (Flanders) using large‐scale frequency‐domain multi‐receiver EMI and landscape archaeological prospection

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2020

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During the 10th to 13th centuries, the rural settlement landscapes of the County of Flanders underwent major changes. Complex interactions between urbanization, growing comital power, demographic changes and rural development formed the basis for intensified reclamations of the landscape. Based on historical research, the ab nihilo plantation of grouped rural settlements by the counts and other landlords played an important role in the organization and systematization of these reclamations. To date, however, archaeological attention for these grouped settlements is scarce, mainly due to Flanders' build‐up and urbanized character. This article describes the renewed cross‐disciplinary landscape archaeological research at the site of the lost village of Nieuw‐Roeselare (northern East Flanders), which was the first medieval village to be partly excavated in Flanders between 1967 and 1979. Believed to have been planted in 1241 and lost to floods in 1375, little is known historically about the site nor does the modern‐day polder landscape show any remnants of a former settlement. Now, a large‐scale cross‐disciplinary prospection comprising 35 ha of frequency‐domain multi‐receiver electromagnetic induction (EMI), oblique aerial photography, augering, pseudo‐two‐dimensional tomography and site specific artefact‐accurate field walking, allowed to define the settlement's full extent, clarify its geographical context and identify its morphology as a planted settlement in the context of the medieval landscape reclamations.

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The Long History of Early Medieval Urbanism on the Island of Walcheren (Netherlands): Towards a Biography of Urban Continuity

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2022

Journal of Urban Archaeology

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The small island of Walcheren in the estuary of the river Scheldt is home to a number of important early medi eval settlements. Building on the results of new fieldwork, this paper discusses their urban character and challenges the conventional narrative of disjointed stages rooted in settlement typo logy. It proposes a contextualized biographical approach in order to reconstruct a more encompassing view of urban continuities and discontinuities. In doing so, it highlights the long persistence of urbanism on the island, across conjunctural shifts and low points, and relates the observed patterns of change to developments locally and more broadly, in the Low Countries and beyond.

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Origins and Early History

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Nieuw-Roeselare – landscape archaeological and historical geographical research on deserted medieval settlements in the borderlands of Flanders and Zealand

Nieuw-Roeselare – landscape archaeological and historical geographical research on deserted medieval settlements in the borderlands of Flanders and Zealand

Lost but revived. Revisiting the medieval village of Nieuw‐Roeselare (Flanders) using large‐scale frequency‐domain multi‐receiver EMI and landscape archaeological prospection

The Long History of Early Medieval Urbanism on the Island of Walcheren (Netherlands): Towards a Biography of Urban Continuity

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