Roman Infrastructure In Early Medieval Britain

Author : Mateusz Fafinski
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789048551972

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Roman Infrastructure in Early Medieval Britain by Mateusz Fafinski Pdf

Early Medieval Britain is more Roman than we think. The Roman Empire left vast infrastructural resources on the island. These resources lay buried not only in dirt and soil, but also in texts, laws, chronicles - even charters, churches, and landscapes. This book uncovers them and shows how they shaped Early Medieval Britain. Infrastructure, material and symbolic, can work in ways that are not immediately obvious and exert an influence long after the builders have gone. Infrastructure can also rest dormant and be reactivated with a changed function, role and appearance. This is not a simple story of continuity and discontinuity: it is a story of transformation, of how the Roman infrastructural past was used and re-used, and also how it influenced the later societies of Britain.

Author : Stephen Rippon,Chris Smart,Ben Pears
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191019517

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The Fields of Britannia by Stephen Rippon,Chris Smart,Ben Pears Pdf

It has long been recognized that the landscape of Britain is one of the 'richest historical records we possess', but just how old is it? The Fields of Britannia is the first book to explore how far the countryside of Roman Britain has survived in use through to the present day, shaping the character of our modern countryside. Commencing with a discussion of the differing views of what happened to the landscape at the end of Roman Britain, the volume then brings together the results from hundreds of archaeological excavations and palaeoenvironmental investigations in order to map patterns of land-use across Roman and early medieval Britain. In compiling such extensive data, the volume is able to reconstruct regional variations in Romano-British and early medieval land-use using pollen, animal bones, and charred cereal grains to demonstrate that agricultural regimes varied considerably and were heavily influenced by underlying geology. We are shown that, in the fifth and sixth centuries, there was a shift away from intensive farming but very few areas of the landscape were abandoned completely. What is revealed is a surprising degree of continuity: the Roman Empire may have collapsed, but British farmers carried on regardless, and the result is that now, across large parts of Britain, many of these Roman field systems are still in use.

Author : Pam J. Crabtree
Publisher : Case Studies in Early Societie
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521885942

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Early Medieval Britain by Pam J. Crabtree Pdf

Traces the development of towns in Britain from late Roman times to the end of the Anglo-Saxon period using archaeological data.

Author : Tim Eaton
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X004521521

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Plundering the Past by Tim Eaton Pdf

Author : Tyler Bell
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015062408797

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The Religious Reuse of Roman Structures in Early Medieval England by Tyler Bell Pdf

This work examines how and why Roman structures - commonly villas, forts, and bathhouses - were reinvented as religious centres in the Post-Roman period. Two principal lines of enquiry are pursued: the relationship of post-Roman burials with Roman buildings, and the relationship between early churches and Roman buildings. The aims of this research were to establish a unified corpus around which the study of these type-sites may be pursued; to present a balanced, judicious, and informed consideration of the problem of continuity, and to critically assess various models for the progress from secular structures to sacred sites; and to demonstrate that the physical remains of Roman structures had a significant impact on the religious landscape of Early Medieval England sites.

Author : Robin Fleming
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812252446

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The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE by Robin Fleming Pdf

"An examination of the transformations in lowland Britain's material culture over the course of the long fifth century CE during the late Roman regime and its end"--

Author : William O. Frazer,Andrew Tyrell
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441195029

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Social Identity in Early Medieval Britain by William O. Frazer,Andrew Tyrell Pdf

Social identity is a concept od increasing importance in the social sciences. Here, the concept is applied to the often atheoretical realm of medieval studies. Each contributor focuses on a particular topic of early medieval identity - ethnicity, national identity, social location, subjectivity/personhood, political organization, kiship, the body, gender, age, proximity/regionality, memory and ideological systems. The result is a pioneering vision of medieval social identity and a challenge to some of the received general wisdoms about this period.

Author : Rory Naismith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424448

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Early Medieval Britain, c. 500–1000 by Rory Naismith Pdf

Deconstructs the early history of Britain, illustrating a transformative era with wide-ranging sources and an accessible narrative.

Author : N. J. Higham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015028417031

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Rome, Britain and the Anglo-Saxons by N. J. Higham Pdf

Author : James Gerrard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107038639

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The Ruin of Roman Britain by James Gerrard Pdf

This book employs new archaeological and historical evidence to explain how and why Roman Britain became Anglo-Saxon England.

Author : Johanna Dale
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800084353

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St Peter-On-The-Wall by Johanna Dale Pdf

The Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, built on the ruins of a Roman fort, dates from the mid-seventh century and is one of the oldest largely intact churches in England. It stands in splendid isolation on the shoreline at the mouth of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, where the land meets and interpenetrates with the sea and the sky. This book brings together contributors from across the arts, humanities and social sciences to uncover the pre-modern contexts and modern resonances of this medieval building and its landscape setting. The impetus for this collection was the recently published designs for a new nuclear power station at Bradwell on Sea, which, if built, would have a significant impact on the chapel and its landscape setting. St Peter-on-the-Wall highlights the multiple ways in which the chapel and landscape are historically and archaeologically significant, while also drawing attention to the modern importance of Bradwell as a place of Christian worship, of sanctuary and of cultural production. In analysing the significance of the chapel and surrounding landscape over more than a thousand years, this collection additionally contributes to wider debates about the relationship between space and place, and particularly the interfaces between both medieval and modern cultures and also heritage and the natural environment.

Author : Els Rose
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031485619

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City, Citizen, Citizenship, 400–1500 by Els Rose Pdf

Author : Jakub Filonik,Christine Plastow,Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000847833

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Citizenship in Antiquity by Jakub Filonik,Christine Plastow,Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz Pdf

Citizenship in Antiquity brings together scholars working on the multifaceted and changing dimensions of citizenship in the ancient Mediterranean, from the second millennium BCE to the first millennium CE, adopting a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. The chapters in this volume cover numerous periods and regions – from the Ancient Near East, through the Greek and Hellenistic worlds and pre-Roman North Africa, to the Roman Empire and its continuations, and with excursuses to modernity. The contributors to this book adopt various contemporary theories, demonstrating the manifold meanings and ways of defining the concept and practices of citizenship and belonging in ancient societies and, in turn, of non-citizenship and non-belonging. Whether citizenship was defined by territorial belonging or blood descent, by privileged or exclusive access to resources or participation in communal decision-making, or by a sense of group belonging, such identifications were also open to discursive redefinitions and manipulation. Citizenship and belonging, as well as non-citizenship and non-belonging, had many shades and degrees; citizenship could be bought or faked, or even removed. By casting light on different areas of the Mediterranean over the course of antiquity, the volume seeks to explore this multi-layered notion of citizenship and contribute to an ongoing and relevant discourse. Citizenship in Antiquity offers a wide-ranging, comprehensive collection suitable for students and scholars of citizenship, politics, and society in the ancient Mediterranean world, as well as those working on citizenship throughout history interested in taking a comparative approach.

Author : Benjamin Pohl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108482974

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The Cambridge Companion to the Age of William the Conqueror by Benjamin Pohl Pdf

Offers a comparative cultural history of north-western Europe in the crucial period of the eleventh century.

Author : Rob Collins,Jane Harrison
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789259469

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Excavations Along Hadrian’s Wall 2019–2021 by Rob Collins,Jane Harrison Pdf

This study focuses on the fabric, construction and preservation of stretches of Hadrian's Wall in its more remote locations, providing significant insights into the places between the mile castles and important forts and associated settlements. The Hadrian’s Wall Community Archaeology Project (WallCAP) conducted a series of fieldwork projects along the Hadrian’s Wall corridor between 2019 and 2021. The work focused on sites that were poorly understood or under particular threat and aimed to improve understanding of them so they could be better managed in future. At several sites excavation was followed by conservation and consolidation work. This volume brings together the final reports of these excavations, at six Roman sites in the Wall corridor. As the sites were spread along the length of the Wall the character and afterlife of the Wall in very different landscape locations could be compared. An assessment of the Vallum at Heddon on the Wall identified how earthwork archaeology survived in a sloped, heavily ploughed landscape. Three excavations investigated the condition of the stone Wall curtain: at Port Carlisle, Walltown Crags, and Steel Rigg and Cats Stairs. At each site the Wall builders had responded to the demands of the local terrain and made use of local resources. At each site the Wall had a different post-Roman history. Excavations at the bridging point of the Cam Beck revealed for the first time how the Wall was carried over a ‘minor’ watercourse, and discovered traces of the Turf Wall. Small buildings were also identified just south of the Wall as it approached the bridge. At Corbridge Roman town, excavations on the northern periphery of the settlement demonstrated that from early in its history the most northerly town in Europe was of considerable extent. The area investigated showed that, even at the edge of town, shops lined the roads alongside well-appointed houses with bustling yards. Later on in the Roman period the town contracted behind walls and cremation burials were inserted by the road. Each site is reported on independently, presenting the primary data for each investigation. The volume concludes with a synthetic analysis of what the results of these excavations together reveal about Hadrian’s Wall, considering, amongst other things, construction details and the decay and destruction of the monument in the centuries following Roman occupation.