Excavations At Hulton Abbey Staffordshire 1987 1994

Author : William D. Klemperer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 485 pages
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Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351196451

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Excavations at Hulton Abbey, Staffordshire 1987-1994 by William D. Klemperer Pdf

"Hulton Abbey was a minor Cistercian monastery in north Staffordshire (England), founded in 1219 and finally dissolved in 1538. This is the final report on the archaeological excavations undertaken there between 1987 and 1994. In particular, the chapter house was uncovered and re-assessed and the eastern part of the church and north aisle were completely excavated, together with the eastern half of the nave. The excavations are described by area and chronological phase with detailed specialist reports including architectural stonework and decorated floor tiles. An extensive programme of sampling and analysis of pollen remains from burials was also completed. The remains of 91 individuals, mainly men but also women and children, are reported on in detail, with sections on abnormalities and pathology as well as medieval burial goods such as a wax chalice and wooden wands. Comparisons with other published monastic sites in the region help to place Hulton into a wider context. An important element of the project was education and community involvement and today the site lies in a small urban park in Stoke-on-Trent."

Author : Graham Keevill,Mick Aston,Teresa Hall
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
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Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785705700

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Monastic Archaeology by Graham Keevill,Mick Aston,Teresa Hall Pdf

The study of monasteries has come a long way since late the late 19th century. The emphasis has shifted away from reconstructing the layouts of monastic buildings to a better understanding of the wider monastic environment. The papers in this volume, partly based on a conference held in Oxford in 1994, are written by some of today's foremost scholars and reflect the diversity of research now being carried out.

Author : David Gaimster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351546607

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The Archaeology of Reformation,1480-1580 by David Gaimster Pdf

Traditionally the Reformation has been viewed as responsible for the rupture of the medieval order and the foundation of modern society. Recently historians have challenged the stereotypical model of cataclysm, and demonstrated that the religion of Tudor England was full of both continuities and adaptations of traditional liturgy, ritual and devoti

Author : Stephen Spencer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781134014460

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Visual Research Methods in the Social Sciences by Stephen Spencer Pdf

Visual Research Methods is a guide for students, researchers and teachers in the social sciences who wish to explore and actively use a visual dimension in their research. This book offers an integrated approach to doing visual research, showing the potential for building convincing case studies using a mix of visual forms including: archive images, media, maps, objects, buildings, and video interviews. Examples of the visual construction of ‘place’, social identity and trends of analysis are given in the first section of the book, whilst the essays in the second section highlight the astonishing creativity and innovation of four visual researchers. Each detailed example serves as a touchstone of quality and analysis in research, with themes ranging from the ethnography of a Venezuelan cult goddess to the forensic photography of the skeleton of a fourteenth-century nobleman. They give a keen sense of the motives, philosophies and benefits of using visual research methods. This volume will be of practical interest to those embarking on visual research as well as more experienced researchers. Key concerns include the power of images and their changing significance in a world of cross – mediation, techniques of analysis and ethical issues, and how to unlock the potential of visual data for research.

Author : Maaike Groot,Daphne Lentjes,Jørn Zeiler
Publisher : Sidestone Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789088901997

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Barely Surviving or More than Enough? by Maaike Groot,Daphne Lentjes,Jørn Zeiler Pdf

How people produced or acquired their food in the past is one of the main questions in archaeology. Everyone needs food to survive, so the ways in which people managed to acquire it forms the very basis of human existence. Farming was key to the rise of human sedentarism. Once farming moved beyond subsistence, and regularly produced a surplus, it supported the development of specialisation, speeded up the development of socio-economic as well as social complexity, the rise of towns and the development of city states. In short, studying food production is of critical importance in understanding how societies developed. Environmental archaeology often studies the direct remains of food or food processing, and is therefore well-suited to address this topic. What is more, a wealth of new data has become available in this field of research in recent years. This allows synthesising research with a regional and diachronic approach. Indeed, most of the papers in this volume offer studies on subsistence and surplus production with a wide geographical perspective. The research areas vary considerably, ranging from the American Mid-South to Turkey. The range in time periods is just as wide, from c. 7000 BC to the 16th century AD. Topics covered include foraging strategies, the combination of domestic and wild food resources in the Neolithic, water supply, crop specialisation, the effect of the Roman occupation on animal husbandry, town-country relationships and the monastic economy. With this collection of papers and the theoretical framework presented in the introductory chapter, we wish to demonstrate that the topic of subsistence and surplus production remains of interest, and promises to generate more exciting research in the future.

Author : Dawn M Hadley,Christopher Dyer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315312927

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The Archaeology of the 11th Century by Dawn M Hadley,Christopher Dyer Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of plates -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- CHAPTER 2 The Norman Conquest and its impact on late Anglo-Saxon towns -- CHAPTER 3 The Norman Conquest and its influences on urban landscapes -- CHAPTER 4 Conquest, colonisation and the countryside: archaeology and the mid-11th- to mid-12th-century rural landscape -- CHAPTER 5 Manorial farmsteads and the expression of lordship before and after the Norman Conquest -- CHAPTER 6 Anglo-Saxon towers of lordship and the origins of the castle in England -- CHAPTER 7 Scars on the townscape: urban castles in Saxo-Norman England -- CHAPTER 8 Seeking 'Norman burials': evidence for continuity and change in funerary practice following the Norman Conquest -- CHAPTER 9 Charity and conquest: leprosaria in early Norman England -- CHAPTER 10 Archaeology and archiepiscopal reform: greater churches in York diocese in the 11th century -- CHAPTER 11 Rewriting the narrative: regional dimensions of the Norman Conquest -- CHAPTER 12 The Bayeux Tapestry: window to a world of continuity and change -- CHAPTER 13 Cuisine and conquest: interdisciplinary perspectives on food, continuity and change in 11th-century England and beyond -- CHAPTER 14 Tradition and innovation: lead-alloy brooches and urban identities in the 11th century -- CHAPTER 15 History, archaeology and the Norman Conquest -- Index

Author : Roberta Gilchrist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781351551885

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Reflections: 50 Years of Medieval Archaeology, 1957-2007: No. 30 by Roberta Gilchrist Pdf

This volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Society for Medieval Archaeology (established in 1957), presenting reflections on the history, development and future prospects of the discipline. The papers are drawn from a series of conferences and workshops that took place in 2007-08, in addition to a number of contributions that were commissioned especially for the volume. They range from personal commentaries on the history of the Society and the growth of the subject (see papers by David Wilson and Rosemary Cramp), to historiographical, regional and thematic overviews of major trends in the evolution and current practice of medieval archaeology. All the publications are fully refereed with the aim of publishing at the highest academic level reports on sites of national and international importance, and of encouraging the widest debate. The series’ objectives are to cover the broadest chronological and geographical range and to assemble a series of volumes which reflect the changing intellectual and technical scope of the discipline.

Author : Nancy Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351546577

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The Archaeology of the Early Medieval Celtic Churches: by Nancy Edwards Pdf

This volume focuses on new research on the archaeology of the early medieval Celtic churches c AD 400-1100 in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, south-west Britain and Brittany. The 21 papers use a variety of approaches to explore and analyse the archaeological evidence for the origins and development of the Church in these areas. The results of a recent multi-disciplinary research project to identify the archaeology of the early medieval church in different regions of Wales are considered alongside other new research and the discoveries made in excavations in both Wales and beyond. The papers reveal not only aspects of the archaeology of ecclesiastical landscapes with their monasteries, churches and cemeteries, but also special graves, relics, craftworking and the economy enabling both comparisons and contrasts. They likewise engage with ongoing debates concerning interpretation: historiography and the concept of the Celtic Church, conversion to Christianity, Christianization of the landscape and the changing functions and inter-relationships of sites, the development of saints cults, sacred space and pilgrimage landscapes and the origins of the monastic town .

Author : James H. Barrett,Sarah Jane Gibbon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317247975

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Maritime Societies of the Viking and Medieval World by James H. Barrett,Sarah Jane Gibbon Pdf

This book is a study of communities that drew their identity and livelihood from their relationships with water during a pivotal time in the creation of the social, economic and political landscapes of northern Europe. It focuses on the Baltic, North and Irish Seas in the Viking Age (ad 1050–1200), with a few later examples (such as the Scottish Lordship of the Isles) included to help illuminate less well-documented earlier centuries. Individual chapters introduce maritime worlds ranging from the Isle of Man to Gotland — while also touching on the relationships between estate centres, towns, landing places and the sea in the more terrestrially oriented societies that surrounded northern Europe’s main spheres of maritime interaction. It is predominately an archaeological project, but draws no arbitrary lines between the fields of historical archaeology, history and literature. The volume explores the complex relationships between long-range interconnections and distinctive regional identities that are characteristic of maritime societies, seeking to understand communities that were brought into being by their relationships with the sea and who set waves in motion that altered distant shores.

Author : SallyM. Foster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351577847

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Able Minds and Practiced Hands by SallyM. Foster Pdf

One hundred years on from J Romilly Allen and Joseph Anderson's 1903 landmark publication, The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland, twenty six essays explore the current state of knowledge of early medieval sculpture in Scotland. They demonstrate the unique value of this material in contributing to our understanding of the society and people that created it between 1000 to 1500 years ago. Today's approaches and techniques offer new insights, as well as great hope, for what might be learnt from future study of 'familiar' and new material alike. The essays exemplify the ever-diversifying, interdisciplinary approaches that are being taken to the study of early medieval sculpture. Key themes that emerge include: the interdependence of conservation, research and access; the need for a 21st-century inventory of the sculpture; the breadth and value of the wide range of the research tools that now exist; conservation issues, including the politics of how and where sculpture should be protected, and the pressing need to identify priorities for action; and, what is probably the most important development over the last 100 years, the increase in awareness of the range of values and significances that attaches to early medieval sculpture, including appreciation of context.

Author : John McNeill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351195058

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The Medieval Cloister in England and Wales by John McNeill Pdf

"This dedicated volume of the Journal of the British Archaeological Association draws together ten papers which, collectively, explore something of the art and architecture, styles and uses, of the medieval cloister in England and Wales. Contributors consider the continental context, cloisters in English palaces, Benedictine and Augustinian cloister arcades in the 12th and 13th centuries, architecture and meaning in Cistercian east ranges, late medieval vaulted cloisters in the West Country, cloisters at the cathedrals of Old Sarum, Canterbury, and Lincoln, and assess the extent to which the cloister bosses at Norwich cathedral priory reflect contemporary religious politics. The volume also contains an extended consideration and gazetteer of all Cistercian cloisters in England and Wales."

Author : Christopher M. Gerrard,Gutiérrez López Gutiérrez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1105 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198744719

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The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain by Christopher M. Gerrard,Gutiérrez López Gutiérrez Pdf

The Middle Ages are all around us in Britain. The Tower of London and the castles of Scotland and Wales are mainstays of cultural tourism and an inspiring cross-section of later medieval finds can now be seen on display in museums across England, Scotland, and Wales. Medieval institutions fromParliament and monarchy to universities are familiar to us and we come into contact with the later Middle Ages every day when we drive through a village or town, look up at the castle on the hill, visit a local church or wonder about the earthworks in the fields we see from the window of a train.The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain provides an overview of the archaeology of the later Middle Ages in Britain between AD 1066 and 1550. 61 entries, divided into 10 thematic sections, cover topics ranging from later medieval objects, human remains, archaeological science,standing buildings, and sites such as castles and monasteries, to the well-preserved relict landscapes which still survive. This is a rich and exciting period of the past and most of what we have learnt about the material culture of our medieval past has been discovered in the past two generations.This volume provides comprehensive coverage of the latest research and describes the major projects and concepts that are changing our understanding of our medieval heritage.

Author : John Hines
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781000161083

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Land, Sea and Home by John Hines Pdf

This book provides a realistic historical and geographical perspective to begin closest to the Scandinavian homelands of Vikings and the Viking ideology and material culture, by looking at new research into aspects of their use of the sea, maritime communications and trade.

Author : Iain Soden
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445619989

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Ranulf de Blondeville by Iain Soden Pdf

The first major study of Ranulf de Blondeville, a name once recounted in the same breath as Robin Hood.

Author : Graham D. Keevill,Teresa Anne Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Christian antiquities
ISBN : UVA:X004541650

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Monastic Archaeology by Graham D. Keevill,Teresa Anne Hall Pdf