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Format: Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 240
Utgivningsdatum: 2007-06-01
Förlag: Oxbow Books
Illustrationer: b/w illus
Dimensioner: 280 x 216 x 22 mm
Antal komponenter: 1
ISBN: 9781842172513

People and Places

Name: People and Places
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Author: Michael Costen
ISBN: 9781842172513

Essays in Honour of Michael Aston

av Michael Costen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007-06-01

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This volume of thirteen essays came out of a conference in December 2004 at Bristol University, to celebrate the career of Mick Aston on the occasion of his retirement. They reflect his enthusiam for landscape and monastic archaeology in particular, and range in time from prehistory to the nineteenth century. Mick's ability to communicate archaeology to the masses has rightly seen him earn the title of 'The Ambassador of British Archaeology'.

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Anglo-Saxon Somerset

Michael Costen

The county of Somerset cannot lay claim to have been an Anglo-Saxon kingdom like Kent or Sussex, but nevertheless it has a history as a distinct region which can be traced to the seventh century and there are hints of an earlier entity in the post...

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Overall this is an excellent collection of papers that are given considerable coherence through reflecting the landscape interests of Mick Aston. It is edited and illustrated to a high standard, and Oxbow is to be congratulated on its high production standards.' -- Landscape History Landscape History

edited by Michael Costen

Foreword (Michael Cotsen) Mick Aston - An Appreciation (Trevor Rowley) Experiencing the prehistoric landscape of Somerset (Jodie Lewis) Chasing the tail of hunter-gatherers in south western landscapes (Paula Gardiner) Keeping the faith: The physical expression of differing church customs in early medieval Britain (Teresa Hall) Anonymous thegns in the landscape of Wessex 900-1066 (Michael Cotsen) Strategy, symbolism and the downright unusual: The archaeology of three Somerset castles (Stuart Prior) The Premonstratensian Canons of south-western France: A preliminary survey (James Bond) Angevin Lordship and Colonial Romanesque in Ireland (Tadhg O'Keefe) The peripatetic life of the medieval bishops: The travels of Salisbury and Bath and Wells (Naomi Payne) An aristocratic mausoleum at Grosbot Abbey (Poitou-Charente, France) (Mark Horton and Katherine Robson-Brown) Not all archaeology is rubbish: The elusive life-histories of three artefacts from Shapwick, Somerset (Christopher Gerrard) 'Of naked Venuses and drunken Bacchanals': Tong Castle, Shropshire, and its landscapes (Paul Stamper) Clear fountains and turbid: Archaeology's crisis of of communication (Nick Corcos) Reconstructing past landscapes: What do we see? (Christopher Taylor)