Early Medieval Settlements

Early Medieval Settlements
Author: Helena Hamerow
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2004
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0199273189

This is an overview and synthesis of the extensive and rapidly growing body of archaeological evidence for early medieval buildings, settlements, farming, craft production, and trade among the rural communities of north-west Europe.

Settlement Change Across Medieval Europe

Settlement Change Across Medieval Europe
Author: Niall Brady
Publisher: Ruralia
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2019-09-09
Genre: 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.

Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Europe

Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Europe
Author: Neil Christie
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Total Pages: 970
Release: 2016-08-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 178570236X

Twenty-three contributions by leading archaeologists from across Europe explore the varied forms, functions and significances of fortified settlements in the 8th to 10th centuries AD. These could be sites of strongly martial nature, upland retreats, monastic enclosures, rural seats, island bases, or urban nuclei. But they were all expressions of control - of states, frontiers, lands, materials, communities - and ones defined by walls, ramparts or enclosing banks. Papers run from Irish cashels to Welsh and Pictish strongholds, Saxon burhs, Viking fortresses, Byzantine castra, Carolingian creations, Venetian barricades, Slavic strongholds, and Bulgarian central places, and coverage extends fully from northwest Europe, to central Europe, the northern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Strongly informed by recent fieldwork and excavations, but drawing also where available on the documentary record, this important collection provides fully up-to-date reviews and analyses of the archaeology of the distinctive settlement forms that characterized Europe in the Early Middle Ages.

Environment, Society and Landscape in Early Medieval England

Environment, Society and Landscape in Early Medieval England
Author: Tom Williamson
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2015
Genre: 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.

Early Medieval Britain

Early Medieval Britain
Author: Pam J. Crabtree
Publisher:
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2018-06-07
Genre: 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.

Vandals to Visigoths

Vandals to Visigoths
Author: Karen Eva Carr
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780472108916

Sheds light on settlement patterns in early medieval Spain and demonstrates the local effect of the collapse of Roman Government

Medieval Rural Settlement

Medieval Rural Settlement
Author: Hajnalka Herold
Publisher: Windgather Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-02-15
Genre:
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.

Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England

Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England
Author: Helena Hamerow
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2012-07-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199203253

The first major synthesis of the evidence for Anglo-Saxon settlements from across England and throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, and a study of what it reveals about the communities who built and lived in them.