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An Anglo-Saxon multiple estate was a large landholding controlled from a central location with surrounding subsidiary settlements. These estates were present in the early Anglo-Saxon period, but fragmented into smaller units in the late Anglo-Saxon period. Despite some academic criticism, the concept has been widely used and a large number of possible examples have been proposed. ==Definition== The concept of an Anglo-Saxon multiple estate was developed by Professor Glanville Jones of Leeds University. The idea originally appeared in a paper published in 1961 and was fleshed out in a 1976 book on medieval settlement. The term "great estate" is sometimes used as an alternative to multiple estate. These estates typically contained various features: * a central ''caput'' from which the estate was managed * a minster church providing parochial support to the whole estate * surrounding agricultural settlements specialising in particular crops. The specialised settlements, dependent on the caput, often took their name from the crop they produced - Cheswick (cheese wick), Berwick (barley farm), etc. The caput has been variously described as a villa regalis, aula, mansio or maerdref.〔 Specialisation may have been encouraged by "renders" - taxation in kind - paid to the king. These estates may have been based around a royal vill and may have been coterminous with the parochia of an early minster church.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anglo-Saxon multiple estate」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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