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Landscape, environment, and agriculture in medieval Ireland: resource management and decision-making on the manors of Roger Bigod, C.1279-1290 Holly Elaine Shipton (24292745) PUREID: 674941113 Medieval medieval Ireland landscape history economic history agricultural history 13th Century environmental In the twelfth-century, Ireland was colonised and settled by Anglo-Norman nobility, resulting in the imposition of English tenurial and economic models onto the pre-existing social and political landscape. These seized lands were held by significant transmarine lords who established a hierarchy of officials and administrators to manage their Irish estates, often in their absence, and to generate profit. This thesis applies a new methodology to analysing their manorial accounts, with the aim of understanding how environmental variables (such as soil type) were determining factors in agrarian decision-making. Taking each manor as its own economic and agrarian unit allows us to investigate localised management practices, before comparing each manor and how they functioned within a wider economic network throughout the economic and social turbulence of the 1280s and ‘90s. <br><br><i>Thesis is embargoed until 31 July 2027</i>. 2026-10-01T16:15:50Z Text Thesis 10.17034/32805473.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Landscape_environment_and_agriculture_in_medieval_Ireland_resource_management_and_decision-making_on_the_manors_of_Roger_Bigod_C_1279-1290/32805473 All Rights Reserved Open Access after 2027-07-31