Wessex In The Early Middle Ages
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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.
Wessex
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Author : Barbara Yorke
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 1995-08-01
Wessex written by Barbara Yorke and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-08-01 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 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 Land Of The English Kin
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-04-28
The Land Of The English Kin written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-28 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.
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.
Early Medieval Winchester
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Author : Ryan Lavelle
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2021-11-30
Early Medieval Winchester written by Ryan Lavelle and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-30 with Social Science categories.
Winchester’s identity as a royal centre became well established between the ninth and twelfth centuries, closely tied to the significance of the religious communities who lived within and without the city walls. The reach of power of Winchester was felt throughout England and into the Continent through the relationships of the bishops, the power fluctuations of the Norman period, the pursuit of arts and history writing, the reach of the city’s saints, and more. The essays contained in this volume present early medieval Winchester not as a city alone, but a city emmeshed in wider political, social, and cultural movements and, in many cases, providing examples of authority and power that are representative of early medieval England as a whole.
Nunneries And The Anglo Saxon Royal Houses
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Author : Barbara Yorke
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2003-06-16
Nunneries And The Anglo Saxon Royal Houses written by Barbara Yorke and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-16 with Religion categories.
By the late Anglo-Saxon period almost all newly founded nunneries were founded by royal patronage. This detailed study, which traces the histories of royal nunneries in the 7th and 8th centuries, examines how they differed from other types of religious communities in terms of their organisation, status, special secular and ecclesiastical features and the authority and power which the abbess and other women held. Barbara Yorke reveals how the royal nunneries were not only subject to the changing fortunes of the Church and state, but also to the successes and failures of the royal houses that patronised them. This particular group of nunneries is also compared and contrasted with the variety of other arrangements available to religious women, both within and outside of convents and male religious establishments, and with gender and societal norms.
Danes In Wessex
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Author : Ryan Lavelle
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2015-11-30
Danes In Wessex written by Ryan Lavelle and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-30 with Social Science categories.
There have been many studies of the Scandinavians in Britain, but this is the first collection of essays to be devoted solely to their engagement with Wessex. New work on the early Middle Ages, not least the excavations of mass graves associated with the Viking Age in Dorset and Oxford, drew attention to the gaps in our understanding of the wider impact of Scandinavians in areas of Britain not traditionally associated with them. Here, a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach to the problems of their study is presented. While there may not have been the same degree of impact, discernible particularly in place-names and archaeology, as in those areas of Britain which had substantial influxes of Scandinavian settlers, Wessex was a major theater of the Viking wars in the reigns of Alfred and Æthelred Unræd. Two major topics, the Viking wars and the Danish landowning elite, figure strongly in this collection but are shown not to be the sole reasons for the presence of Danes, or items associated with them, in Wessex. Multidisciplinary approaches evoke Vikings and Danes not just through the written record, but through their impact on real and imaginary landscapes and via the objects they owned or produced. The papers raise wider questions too, such as when did aggressive Vikings morph into more acceptable Danes, and what issues of identity were there for natives and incomers in a province whose founders were believed to have also come from North Sea areas, if not from parts of Denmark itself? Readers can continue for themselves aspects of these broader debates that will be stimulated by this fascinating and significant series of studies by both established scholars and new researchers.
Text And Transmission In Medieval Europe
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Author : Chris Bishop
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2008-12-18
Text And Transmission In Medieval Europe written by Chris Bishop and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Scholars of the Middle Ages are familiar with the notion of text as an inscribed document, whether that inscription occurs upon stone, metal, vellum or textiles, but the concept of inscription and, therefore, of text, can be extended to cover a range of evidence. Thus, one might speak of archaeological remains, land use patterns, traditional stories, remnant practices and revenant beliefs as constituting texts in their own right. Broadly defined then, text is the means by which we engage with the historical subject. The medievalist, however, faces particular constraints in interpreting these texts through the agencies of their transmission. Questions such as who authored these texts, when and why, intersect with problems of transcription, translation and redaction to inform a complex discourse. The majority of the chapters in this book started life as papers presented at a conference entitled Text and Transmission in Early Medieval Europe and the title of this book ultimately derives from that theme. The subjects these chapters deal with range in geography from Ireland through to Byzantium, and cover almost a millennium of European history, but they are united in their effort to prise from their subjects some truths about texts, transmission and the critical literacies needed to interpret both.
The West Midlands In The Early Middle Ages
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Author : Margaret Gelling
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 1992
The West Midlands In The Early Middle Ages written by Margaret Gelling and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.