Medieval forest scene, from the Livre de chasse (1387) William the Conqueror, a great lover of hunting, established the system of forest law. This operated outside the common law, and served to protect game animals and their forest habitat from destruction.

The consequences of medieval forest use may be summed up as follows: many cohesive forest areas were largely destroyed, due mainly to the felling of trees for firewood. Even the most remote forest areas were affected.

The medieval forest was actually a nurturing space that supplied both numerous food resources and a precious raw material: wood. Crisscrossed by farmers and their herds, graced by seignorial hunting parties, it bustled with the activity of colliers, lumberjacks, potters and glassblowers.

Some medieval forests have famous names and survive today, though in reduced size. An example is Sherwood Forest, best known as the site of many exploits of the legendary Robin Hood and still a prominent feature of the Nottinghamshire countryside.

Forest amercements were declared to be 'unlawful'—i.e. contrary to natural justice—and the tithe an attempt to give a respectable colour to their exaction. This scarcely argues any great antiquity for the forest system.

2023年5月9日 · Self-renewal of the forest became an important factor in the early Middle Ages. This process happened in a large part of central and north-western Europe. As early as 1350, the king in Central Europe, Charles IV. ordered the reforestation of the …

2020年10月27日 · Forest comes from the Latin word meaning outdoors – so medieval forests included woods, heaths, wasteland and all manner of open spaces. Their aim was to protect the beasts which the king hunted – deer and boar amongst others.

2012年8月9日 · “‘Forest'” in a medieval sense was a legally defined area . . . where the “beasts of the chase” (deer & wild pig) and their food were protected for the pleasure of the monarch. It was not necessarily a wooded area in the modern meaning – nearly half the New Forest is open heath, grassland and bog.

FOREST NATIONAL PARK Introduction The New Forest is neither new nor strictly speaking a forest. In fact its name comes from the time when the area was first designated as a royal hunting...

The Hercynian Forest was an ancient and dense forest that stretched across Western Central Europe, from Northeastern France to the Carpathian Mountains, including most of Southern Germany, though its boundaries are a matter of debate. It formed the northern boundary of that part of Europe known to writers of Antiquity.

2013年7月12日 · One of the oldest ideas about the Norman conquest is that William the Conqueror introduced into England from Normandy the legal concept of ‘foresta’, land where hunting and the environment in which it took place were protected by draconian laws.

2023年10月11日 · Image Credit: A medieval forest, from Livre de chasse (1387) by Gaston III, Count of Foix. Magna Carta, established on 15 June 1215, is one of the most famous documents in the world. This royal charter of rights set out key legal principles, and is widely recognised as one of the most important constitutional documents of all time, crucial to ...

Multi-Use Management of the Medieval Anglo-Norman Forest by DOLORES WILSON (University of Houston) Modern public perceptions of man’s interaction with the environment are heavily rooted in our post-industrial setting. The environment comes to the forefront each year, especially for school children, via Earth Day celebrations.

Chroniclers lament villages laid waste and the inhabitants being driven from their homes in order to create a forest for the king’s pleasure. When William Rufus was killed in a hunting accident in the New Forest, some contemporaries saw the hand of divine retribution for...

The author's ultimate objective is to show the influence of the royal forest upon the daily lives of contemporaries—both the barons who held land and the peasants who tilled land within the royal forests.

2012年12月30日 · Factual deforestation of Europe was well underway during medieval time. Middle Age and Renaissance poets and dramatists pictured the deserts and moun­tains as ugly, treacherous and inhospitable areas; for­ests as shadowy, wild places often inhabited by evil spirits, demons and witches, bestial creatures, wild men and beasts.

Traces of the people, livestock, and wooden wheels that were part of those stories can still be found on the landscape. There are traces, too, of native peoples whose lives were changed by emigration.

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