Estate Landscapes in northern Europe

Signe Boeskov, Jonathan Finch, Mikael Frausing, Signe Boeskov, Jonathan Finch, Mikael Frausing

• Publisher: Aarhus University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9788771845198
• eBook ISBN: 9788771848991
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

Estate Landscapes in Northern Europe is the first study of the role of the landed estate as an agent in the shaping of landscapes and societies across northern Europe over the past five centuries. Leading us into the fascinating variations of manorial worlds, the present volume seeks to open the field to include a broader perspective on estate landscapes. Estate - or manorial - landscapes were distinctive elements within the historic landscape and created their own character. Marked by larger scale fields associated with the home or demesne farm as well as a higher proportion of woodland and timber trees the landscapes reflected the scale of the resources available to the landowner and the control they exerted over the local communities. But they also represented the performative aspects of life for the elite, such as their engagement with hunting. While existing works have tended to emphasize the economic and agricultural aspect of estate landscapes, this volume draws out the social, cultural and political impact of manors and estates on landscapes throughout northern Europe. The chapters provide insights into a broad range of histories, such as the social worlds of burghers and nobility in the Dutch Republic, or the relationship between the distribution of land and the agitation for electoral reform in nineteenth-century England. Elsewhere in Scandinavia the impact of the reformation and conquest in Norway is balanced against the continuity of ownership in Sweden, where developing the natural resources for industrial enterprise such as ironworks and sawmills brought in new owners. Estate Landscapes in Northern Europe is the first product of the collaboration of researchers from Norway, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Denmark, and the Netherlands, joined together in the European Network for Country House and Estate Research (ENCOUNTER).

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Colophon
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. Estate Landscapes in northern Europe: an introduction (Jonathan Finch and Kristine Dyrmann)
• 2. Power, Grace, and Authority: The Cultural Landscape of Danish Estates c. 1600-2000 (Mikkel Venborg P edersen)
• 3. Making Modern England: The “New Domesday” and Estate Landscapes during the Late-Nineteenth Century (Jonathan Finch)
• 4. The Swedish Manor 1750 to 1950: Decline or Continuity? (Göran Ulv äng)
• 5. The “Dukeries” around Sønderborg: An Early-Modern Manorial Landscape Between Scandinavia and Germany (Carsten Porskr og Rasm ussen)
• 6. Nobility, Peasantry and Estates in southwestern Germany, from the eighteenth to the twentieth century (Daniel Menning)
• 7. Country Houses and Estates in Dutch Urban and Rural History, 1600-1900 (Yme K uiper)
• 8. Reformation, Manors and Nobility in Norway 1500-1821 (Arne Bug ge Am undsen)
• 9. Estate Landscapes in northern Europe: a new agenda (Jonathan Finch)
• Index
• Contributors