I generally start my research online, looking for secondary sources like academic papers/articles on relevant topics. These sources usually have citations to other sources that are on point, often books or primary sources that I can then look up. I also have a pile of books I haven’t gotten to read yet.
Here are a few of the sites I use to search key words and browse article results:
I am including here a list of various sources that have been useful to me. For more focused lists, please see the class handouts linked above. (Annotated Bibliography forthcoming.)
PRIMARY:
Written
Mayster Ian Gardener. The Feate of Gardeninge. MS. In the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, 15th Century. Transcribed by Alicia M. Tyssen Amherst, “A Fifteenth Century Treatise on Gardening.” 1893.
Archaeological
Morgan, Ruth. Tree-Ring Analysis of Wattling from Lincoln, Brayford Wharf East, 1982.
SECONDARY:
Books
Harvey, John. Mediaeval Gardens. Timber Press, 1981.
Landsberg, Sylvia. The Medieval Garden. University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Cecil, Evelyn. A History of Gardening in England. John Murray, Albemarle Street, W, 1910.
Fowler, P. J. Farming in the First Millennium AD: British Agriculture between Julius Caesar and William the Conqueror. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Hooke, Della. Trees in Anglo-Saxon England: Literature, Lore and Landscape. Boydell, 2013.
Bayard, Tania. Sweet Herbs and Sundry Flowers: Medieval Gardens and the Gardens of the Cloisters. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986.
Bayard, Tania. A Medieval Home Companion: Housekeeping in the Fourteenth Century. HarperCollins Publishers, 1992.
Collins, Minta. Medieval Herbals: the Illustrative Traditions. British Library and University of Toronto, 2000.
Blunt, Wilfrid, and Sandra Raphael. The Illustrated Herbal. Thames and Hudson, 1979.
Articles
Birrell, Jean. “Peasant Craftsmen in the Medieval Forest.” The Agricultural History Review, vol. 17, no. 2, 1969, pp. 91–107. JSTOR, JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40273323.
Downey, Liam, and Ingelise Stuijts. “Overview of Historical Irish Food Products—A.T. Lucas (1960–2) Revisited.” The Journal of Irish Archaeology, vol. 22, 2013, pp. 111–126. JSTOR, JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/jirisarch.22.111.
Jørgensen. “Illuminating Ephemeral Medieval Agricultural History through Manuscript Art.” Agricultural History, vol. 89, no. 2, 2015, p. 186., doi:10.3098/ah.2015.089.2.186.
Jørgensen, Dolly. “The Roots of the English Royal Forest.” Anglo-Norman Studies 32: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2009, http://www.academia.edu/2822038/The_Roots_of_the_English_Royal_Forest.
Wilson, Dolores. “Multi-Use Management of the Medieval Anglo-Norman Forest.” Journal of the Oxford University History Society, no. 2, 2004.
O’Sullivan, Aidan, and Tríona Nicholl. “Early Medieval Settlement Enclosures in Ireland: Dwellings, Daily Life and Social Identity.” Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C, vol. 111, no. -1, 2010, pp. 59–90., doi:10.3318/priac.2010.111.59.
O’Sullivan, Aidan et al. “Medieval Houses in Ireland:
Some Perspectives from Archaeology, Early Irish History, and Experimental Archaeology.” 2016 Farrell Lecture, University College Dublin.
Early Medieval Ireland and Beyond, https://earlymedievalarchaeologyproject.wordpress.com/.
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