The Medieval Landscape Of Wessex
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The Medieval Landscape Of Wessex
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Author : Michael Aston
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Release Date : 1994
The Medieval Landscape Of Wessex written by Michael Aston and has been published by Oxbow Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
Wessex formed the heartland of Alfred the Great's kingdom, and continued to wield immense economic power long into the Middle Ages with many extensive and wealthy royal and ecclelesiastical estates. Contributors to this collection of 13 papers on the medieval landscape of Wessex include: B Eagles (The Archaeological evidence for settlement in the 5th to 7th centuries); D Hinton (The archaeology of 8th- to 11th-century Wessex); P Hase (The Church in the Wessex heartlands); D Hooke (The administrative and settlement framework of early medieval Wessex); M Costen (Settlement in Wessex in the 10th century); J Bond (Forests, chases, warrens and parks); J Hare (Agriculture and settlement in Wiltshire and Hampshire); C Lewis (The medieval settlment of Wiltshire); M Hughes (Towns and villages in medieval Hampshire); C Taylor (The regular village plan); M Aston (Medieval settlement in Somerset); S Rippon (Medieval wetland reclamation); R Croft (Protecting medieval settlement sites).
The Ancient Ways Of Wessex
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Author : Alexander Langlands
language : en
Publisher: Windgather Press
Release Date : 2019-11-30
The Ancient Ways Of Wessex written by Alexander Langlands and has been published by Windgather Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-30 with Social Science categories.
The Ancient Ways of Wessex tells the story of Wessex’s roads in the early medieval period, at the point at which they first emerge in the historical record. This is the age of the Anglo-Saxons and an era that witnessed the rise of a kingdom that was taken to the very brink of defeat by the Viking invasions of the ninth century. It is a period that goes on to become one within which we can trace the beginnings of the political entity we have come to know today as England. In a series of ten detailed case studies the reader is invited to consider historical and archaeological evidence, alongside topographic information and ancient place-names, in the reconstruction of the networks of routeways and communications that served the people and places of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. Whether you were a peasant, pilgrim, drover, trader, warrior, bishop, king or queen, travel would have been fundamental to life in the early middle ages and this book explores the physical means by which the landscape was constituted to facilitate and improve the movement of people, goods and ideas from the seventh through to the eleventh centuries. What emerges is a dynamic web of interconnecting routeways serving multiple functions and one, perhaps, even busier than that in our own working countryside. A narrative of transition, one of both of continuity and change, provides a fresh and alternative window into the everyday workings of an early medieval landscape through the pathways trodden over a millennium ago.
Burial Landscape And Identity In Early Medieval Wessex
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Author : Kate Mees
language : en
Publisher: Anglo-Saxon Studies
Release Date : 2019
Burial Landscape And Identity In Early Medieval Wessex written by Kate Mees and has been published by Anglo-Saxon Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with History categories.
Multi-disciplinary investigation of Anglo-Saxon funerary traditions. Burial evidence provides the richest record we possess for the centuries following the retreat of Roman authority. The locations and manner in which communities chose to bury their dead, within the constraints of the environmentaland social milieu, reveal much about this transformational era. This book offers a pioneering exploration of the ways in which the cultural and physical environment influenced funerary traditions during the period c. AD 450-850, in the region which came to form the leading Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. This was a diverse landscape rich in ancient remains, in the form of imposing earthworks, enigmatic megaliths and vestiges of Roman occupation. Employing archaeological evidence, complemented by toponymic and documentary sources and elucidated through landscape analysis, the author argues that particular man-made and natural features were consciously selected as foci for funerary events and ritual practice, becoming integral to manifestations of identity and power in early medieval society. Kate Mees is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Archaeology, Durham University.
Making A Christian Landscape
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Author : Sam Turner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Making A Christian Landscape written by Sam Turner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Christian antiquities categories.
Sam Turner's important new interpretation of early medieval patterns of landscape development traces landscape change in the South West from the introduction of Christianity to the Norman Conquest (AD c. 450-1070). It stresses the significance of political and religious ideology in both the 'Celtic' west (especially Cornwall) and the 'Anglo-Saxon' east (especially the Wessex counties of Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire and Dorset). Using innovative new research methods, and making use of archaeology, place-name evidence, historical sources and land-use patterns, it challenges previous work on the subject by suggesting that the two regions have much in common. Using modern mapping techniques to explore land-use trends, Turner advances a new model for the evolution of ecclesiastical institutions in south-west England. He shows that the early development of Christianity had an impact on the countryside that remains visible in the landscape we see today. Accessibly written with a glossary of terms and a comprehensive bibliography, the book will appeal to both veterans and newcomers to landscape archaeology.
The Land Of The English Kin
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Author : Alex Langlands
language : en
Publisher: Brill's the Early Middle Ages
Release Date : 2020
The Land Of The English Kin written by Alex Langlands and has been published by Brill's the Early Middle Ages this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
"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"--
Wessex In The Early Middle Ages
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Author : Barbara Yorke
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 1995
Wessex In The Early Middle Ages written by Barbara Yorke and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Wessex is central to the study of early medieval English history; it was the dynasty which created the kingdom of England. This volume uses archaeological and place-name evidence to present an authoritative account of the most significant of the English Kingdoms.
The English Medieval Landscape
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Author : Leonard Cantor
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-01
The English Medieval Landscape written by Leonard Cantor and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-01 with History categories.
First published in 1982, The English Medieval Landscape was written to recreate and analyse the development of the major elements of the medieval landscape. Illustrated with maps and photographs, the book explores the nature of the English landscape between 1066 and 1485, from farms and chases to castles, monastic settlements, villages, roads, and more. The English Medieval Landscape will appeal to those with an interest in medieval history and British social history.
From Roman Civitas To Anglo Saxon Shire
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Author : Bruce Eagles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
From Roman Civitas To Anglo Saxon Shire written by Bruce Eagles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Wessex (England) categories.
The Landscape Of Anglo Saxon England
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Author : Della Hooke
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 1998
The Landscape Of Anglo Saxon England written by Della Hooke and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Architecture categories.
This book concerns the landscape that surrounded early medieval man, often described as he saw and experienced it. The Anglo-Saxon period was one of considerable change in settlement and land use patterns but the landscape regions that emerge, documented for the first time in history, are still familiar to us today. The image conjured up, and for the present it can hardly be any more than an image, is tentative and incomplete, for many more threads have been embroidered upon it in the thousand succeeding years; but the early patterns often guided the latter and occasionally still show through. This book examines the Anglo-Saxon's view of his natural surroundings and how he utilized the resources available -- the cropland, woodland and marginal land of pasture and fen -- and how this is reflected in administrative patterns, how it influenced settlement, communications and trade and, moreover, influenced the landscape patterns of successive ages.
Planning In The Early Medieval Landscape
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Author : John Blair
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Planning In The Early Medieval Landscape written by John Blair and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.