The Settlement and Colonisation of Europe

Abstract

The evolution of settlement and colonisation during the Middle Ages is of historical importance from many points of view. It is associated with three great phases of development—three essential chapters in the history of the nations of Europe. Settlement on the land helped to bring about that mingling and stratification of the peoples from which the European nations sprang. To say that all peoples were once in restless motion and that their lines of conquest or migration have determined the division of the land among them is not enough. The process of settlement which followed the Germanic Volkerwanderung was the first of a series of events each of which affected fundamentally the structure of agrarian economy, and at the same time made its contribution to the building up of the European society of nations. A variety of approach characterises all modern researches into the history of settlement.

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