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Viking Identities
Scandinavian Jewellery in England
Häftad, 2020
683 kr
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Viking Identities is the first detailed archaeological study of Viking-Age Scandinavian-style female dress items from England. Based on primary archival and archaeological research, including the analysis of hundreds of recent metal-detector finds, it presents evidence for over 500 brooches and …
Landscapes of the Learned
Placing Gaelic Literati in Irish Lordships 1300-1600
Inbunden, 2023
1373 kr
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Gaelic literati were an elite and influential group in the social hierarchy of Irish lordships between c. 1300 and 1600. From their estates, they served Gaelic and Old English ruling families in the arts of history, law, medicine, and poetry. They farmed, kept guest-houses, conducted schools, and …
Peasant Perceptions of Landscape
Ewelme Hundred, South Oxfordshire, 500-1650
Av Stephen Mileson, Stuart Brookes
Inbunden, 2021
1843 kr
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Peasant Perceptions of Landscape marks a change in the discipline of landscape history, as well as making a major contribution to the history of everyday life. Until now, there has been no sustained analysis of how ordinary medieval and early modern people experienced and perceived their material …
The Open Fields of England
Av David Hall
Inbunden, 2014
1880 kr
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The Open Fields of England describes the open-field system of agriculture that operated in Medieval England before the establishment of present-day farms surrounded by hedges or walls. The volume encompasses a wide range of primary data not previously assembled, to which are added the results of …
Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England
Häftad, 2014
786 kr
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In the course of the fifth century, the farms and villas of lowland Britain were replaced by a new, distinctive form of rural settlement: the settlements of the Anglo-Saxons. This volume presents the first major synthesis of the evidence - which has expanded enormously in recent years - for such …
Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England
Av John Blair
Häftad, 2014
756 kr
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A book centring on late Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman canals may come as a surprise; it is generally assumed that no such things existed. Persuasive evidence has, however, been unearthed independently by several scholars, and has stimulated this first serious study of improved waterways in England …
Parks in Medieval England
Häftad, 2014
756 kr
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Parks were prominent and, indeed, controversial features of the medieval countryside, but they have been unevenly studied and remain only partly understood. Stephen Mileson provides the first full-length study of the subject, examining parks across the country and throughout the Middle Ages in …
Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs
Häftad, 2014
786 kr
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Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs is the first detailed consideration of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts. Beginning with the period following Roman rule and ending in the century following the Norman Conquest, it surveys a period of fundamental social change, which …
Beyond the Medieval Village
The Diversification of Landscape Character in Southern Britain
Häftad, 2014
728 kr
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The varied character of Britain's countryside provides communities with a strong sense of local identity. One of the most significant features of the landscape in Southern Britain is the way that its character differs from region to region, with compact villages in the Midlands contrasting with the …
Life in Early Medieval Wales
Inbunden, 2023
1923 kr
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Research for and the writing of this book was funded by the award of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship.The period c. AD300--1050, spanning the collapse of Roman rule to the coming of the Normans, was formative in the development of Wales. Life in Early Medieval Wales considers how people …
Liturgy, Architecture, and Sacred Places in Anglo-Saxon England
Av Helen Gittos
Häftad, 2015
747 kr
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Church rituals were a familiar feature of life throughout much of the Anglo-Saxon period. In this innovative study, Helen Gittos examines ceremonies for the consecration of churches and cemeteries, and processional feasts like Candlemas, Palm Sunday, and Rogationtide. Drawing on little-known …
Anglo-Saxon Towers of Lordship
Inbunden, 2019
1953 kr
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It has long been assumed that England lay outside the Western European tradition of castle-building until after the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is now becoming apparent that Anglo-Saxon lords had been constructing free-standing towers at their residences all across England over the course of the …
Kingship, Society, and the Church in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire
Inbunden, 2018
2444 kr
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Inspired by studies of Carolingian Europe, Kingship, Society and the Church in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire argues that the social strategies of local kin-groups drove conversion to Christianity and church building in Yorkshire from 400-1066 AD. It challenges the emphasis that has been placed on the role …
Silver, Butter, Cloth
Monetary and Social Economies in the Viking Age
Av Jane Kershaw, Gareth Williams m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
1731 kr
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Silver, Butter, Cloth advances current debates about the nature and complexity of Viking economic systems. It explores how silver and other commodities were used in monetary and social economies across the Scandinavian world of the Viking Age (c. 800-1100 AD) before and alongside the wide scale …
Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England
Religion, Ritual, and Rulership in the Landscape
Av Sarah Semple
Häftad, 2019
902 kr
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Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England represents an unparalleled exploration of the place of prehistoric monuments in the Anglo-Saxon psyche, and examines how Anglo-Saxon communities perceived and used these monuments during the period AD 400-1100. Sarah Semple employs …
The Open Fields of England
Av David Hall
Häftad, 2020
683 kr
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The Open Fields of England describes the open-field system of agriculture that operated in Medieval England before the establishment of present-day farms surrounded by hedges or walls. The volume encompasses a wide range of primary data not previously assembled, to which are added the results of …
Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming
Av Debby Banham, Rosamond Faith
Häftad, 2020
808 kr
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Anglo-Saxon farming made England so wealthy by the eleventh century that it attracted two full-scale invasions. In Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming, Debby Banham and Rosamond Faith explore how Anglo-Saxon farmers produced the food and other crops and animal products that sustained England's economy, …
Trees and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World
Av Michael D. J. Bintley, Michael G. Shapland
Häftad, 2020
653 kr
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Trees were of fundamental importance in Anglo-Saxon society. Anglo-Saxons dwelt in timber houses, relied on woodland as an economic resource, and created a material culture of wood which was at least as meaningfully-imbued, and vastly more prevalent, than the sculpture and metalwork with which we …
Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England
Inbunden, 2012
3225 kr
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In the course of the fifth century, the farms and villas of lowland Britain were replaced by a new, distinctive form of rural settlement: the settlements of Anglo-Saxon communities. This volume presents the first major synthesis of the evidence - which has expanded enormously in recent years - for …
Beyond the Medieval Village
The Diversification of Landscape Character in Southern Britain
Inbunden, 2008
1731 kr
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The varied character of Britain's countryside and towns provides communities with a strong sense of local identity. One of the most significant features of the southern British landscape is the way that its character differs from region to region, with compact villages in the Midlands contrasting …
Charlemagne and Rome
Alcuin and the Epitaph of Pope Hadrian I
Av Joanna Story
Inbunden, 2023
2099 kr
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Charlemagne and Rome is a wide-ranging exploration of cultural politics in the age of Charlemagne. It focuses on a remarkable inscription commemorating Pope Hadrian I who died in Rome at Christmas 795. Commissioned by Charlemagne, composed by Alcuin of York, and cut from black stone quarried close …
Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming
Av Debby Banham, Rosamond Faith
Inbunden, 2014
2941 kr
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Farming was the basis of the wealth that made England worth invading, twice, in the eleventh century, while trade and manufacturing were insignificant by modern standards. In Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming, the authors employ a wide range of evidence to investigate how Anglo-Saxon farmers produced …
Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England
Av John Blair
Inbunden, 2007
2139 kr
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The first study of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman canals and waterways, this book is based on new evidence surrounding the nature of water transport in the period. England is naturally well-endowed with a network of navigable rivers, especially the easterly systems draining into the Thames, Wash and …
Early Medieval Settlements
The Archaeology of Rural Communities in North-West Europe 400-900
Inbunden, 2002
1484 kr
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The excavation of settlements has in recent years transformed our understanding of north-west Europe in the early Middle Ages. We can for the first time begin to answer fundamental questions such as: what did houses look like and how were they furnished? how did villages and individual farmsteads …
The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage
Sixth to Eighth Centuries
Av Anna Gannon
Inbunden, 2003
3909 kr
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This is the first scholarly art-historical appraisal of Anglo-Saxon coinage, from its inception in the late sixth century to Offa's second reform of the penny c.792. Outside numismatic circles, this material has largely been ignored because of its complexity, yet artistically this is the most …
Gold and Gilt, Pots and Pins
Possessions and People in Medieval Britain
Häftad, 2006
912 kr
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In medieval Britain people wore jewellery made of gold if they were rich, of base metal if they were poor; they might hoard their property, or give it away to guarantee that they would have friends when needed; and many of them paid tax on their possessions. In Gold and Gilt, Pots and Pins, David …
Liturgy, Architecture, and Sacred Places in Anglo-Saxon England
Av Helen Gittos
Inbunden, 2013
3131 kr
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Church rituals were a familiar feature of life throughout much of the Anglo-Saxon period. In this innovative study, Helen Gittos examines ceremonies for the consecration of churches and cemeteries, processional feasts like Candlemas, Palm Sunday, and Rogationtide, as well as personal rituals such …
Early Medieval Settlements
The Archaeology of Rural Communities in North-West Europe 400-900
Häftad, 2004
1313 kr
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The excavation of settlements has in recent years transformed our understanding of north-west Europe in the early Middle Ages. We can for the first time begin to answer fundamental questions such as: what did houses look like and how were they furnished? how did villages and individual farmsteads …
Food in Medieval England
Diet and Nutrition
Av C. M. Woolgar, D. Serjeantson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
2564 kr
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Food and diet are central to understanding daily life in the middle ages. In the last two decades, the potential for the study of diet in medieval England has changed markedly: historians have addressed sources in new ways; material from a wide range of sites has been processed by zooarchaeologists …
Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs
Inbunden, 2009
2933 kr
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Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs is the first detailed consideration of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts. Beginning with the period following Roman rule and ending in the century following the Norman Conquest, it surveys a period of fundamental social change, which …
