Author : Pam J. Crabtree
Publisher :
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 19,68 MB
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521885949
Traces the development of towns in Britain from late Roman times to the end of the Anglo-Saxon period using archaeological data.
Author : Niall Brady
Publisher : Ruralia
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789088908064
Innovations, transmissions and transformations had profound spatial, economic and social impacts on the environments, landscapes and habitats evident at micro- and macro-levels. This volume explores how these changes affected how land was worked, how it was organized, and the nature of buildings and rural complexes.
Author : Tom Williamson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,32 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1783270551
The origins of England's regional cultures are here shown to be strongly influenced by the natural environment and geographical features. The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial in the development of England's character: its language, and much of its landscape and culture, were forged in the period between the fifth and the eleventh centuries. Historians and archaeologists have long been fascinated by its regional variations, by the way in which different parts of the country displayed marked differences in social structures, settlement patterns, and field systems. In this controversial and wide-ranging study, the author argues that such differences were largely a consequence of environmental factors: of the influence of climate, soils and hydrology, and of the patterns of contact and communication engendered by natural topography. He also suggests that such environmental influences have been neglected over recent decades by generations of scholars who are embedded in an urban culture and largely divorced from the natural world; and that an appreciation of the fundamental role of physical geography in shaping human affairs can throw much new light on a number of important debates about early medieval society. The book will be essential reading for all those interestedin the character of the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian settlements, in early medieval social and territorial organization, and in the origins of the England's medieval landscapes. Tom Williamson is Professor of LandscapeHistory, University of East Anglia; he has written widely on landscape archaeology, agricultural history, and the history of landscape design.
Author : Piers Dixon
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 2021-11-13
Category :
ISBN : 9789464270105
In this book, the various structures and economic activities of medieval and post-medieval seasonal settlements all over Europe are presented.
Author : Barry Cunliffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0199609330
The story of the origins of the British and the Irish peoples, from the end of the last Ice Age around 10,000BC to the eve of the Norman Conquest - who they were, where they came from, and how they related to one another.
Author : Sharon Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 23,86 MB
Release : 2003-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521522960
This is the first detailed examination of land alienation and land use by white settlers in an Australian colony. It treats the first decades of settlement in Van Diemen's Land, encompassing the effects of the European invasion on Aboriginal society, the early history of environmental degradation, the island's society history and the growth of primary industry. The book presents vivid insights into nineteenth-century society, where wool was so useless that it was burnt, and farmers lived in fear of bushrangers and Aborigines. We see how individuals were constrained by the rigid expectations of race, class and gender in a society where no white man ever stood trial for rape or murder of a black. Drawing on contemporary diaries and letters, as well as government statistics, manuals for intending settlers and newspaper reports, Sharon Morgan has built up a comprehensive picture of the significance of landscape and land use in early colonial society.
Author : Hajnalka Herold
Publisher : Windgather Press
Page : pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 2021-02-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781911188674
Medieval Rural Settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600 is a major assessment and review of the origins, forms and evolutions of medieval rural settlement in Britain and Ireland across the period c. AD 800-1600. It offers a comprehensive analysis of early to late medieval settlement, land use, economics and population, bringing together evidence drawn from archaeological excavations and surveys, historical geographical analysis and documentary and place-name study. It is intended to be the flagship publication of the Medieval Settlement Research Group (MSRG) which has a long and distinguished history of exploring, debating and promoting research and offers systematic appraisal of 60 years' work across the whole field of medieval settlement, designed to inspire the next generation of researchers. Part I comprises a set of papers exploring the history of medieval rural settlement research in Britain and Ireland, the evolving methodologies, the roots of the medieval landscape and the place of power in these settlements and landscapes. Part II presents an extensive series of regional and national reviews detailing contexts, histories of study, forms, evolutions and future research needs. These extensive contributions also include "feature boxes" on key themes, sites to visit and main excavations in the study areas discussed. A final section provides guidance on how to research and study medieval rural sites - from laptop to test-pit. Extensively illustrated in colour and black and white, and written by expert contributors, the volume includes a comprehensive, integrated bibliography and an index. Medieval Rural Settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600 will be essential reading for everyone researching and interested in medieval settlements and the medieval rural landscape.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Alex Langlands
Publisher : Brill's the Early Middle Ages
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 50,81 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004349490
"This volume draws together a series of papers that present some of the most up-to-date thinking on the history, archaeology and toponymy of Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England more broadly. In honour of one of early medieval European scholarship's most illustrious doyennes, no less than twenty-nine contributions demonstrate the indelible impression Barbara Yorke's work has made on her peers and a generation of new scholars, some of whom have benefitted directly from her tutorage. From the identities that emerged in the immediate post-Roman period, through to the development of kingdoms, the role of the church, and impacts felt beyond the eleventh century, the rich and diverse character of the studies presented here are testimony to the versatility and extensive range of the honorand's contribution to the academic field"--
Author : Shelford
Publisher :
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 1861
Category :
ISBN :
