Winchester Swithun S City Of Happiness And Good Fortune

Author : Patrick Ottaway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785704529

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Winchester: Swithun’s ‘City of Happiness and Good Fortune’ by Patrick Ottaway Pdf

This critical assessment of the archaeology of the historic city of Winchester and its immediate environs from earliest times to the present day is the first published comprehensive review of the archaeological resource for the city, which as seen many major programmes of archaeological investigation.There is evidence for activity and occupation in the Winchester area from the Palaeolithic period onwards, but in the Middle Iron Age population rose sharply with settlement was focused on two major defended enclosures at St Catherine’s Hill and, subsequently, Oram’s Arbour. Winchester became a Roman ‘civitas’ capital in the late 1st century AD and the typical infrastructure of public buildings, streets and defences was created. Following a period of near desertion in the Early Anglo-Saxon period, Winchester became a significant place again with the foundation of a minster church in the mid-7th century. In the Late Anglo-Saxon period it became the pre-eminent royal centre for the Kingdom of Wessex. The city acquired a castle, cathedral and bishop’s palace under norman kings but from the late 12th century onwards its status began to decline to that of a regional market town. The archaeological resource for Winchester is very rich and is a resource of national and, for the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods, of international importance.

Author : Patrick Ottaway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 1785704516

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Winchester by Patrick Ottaway Pdf

Author : Ryan Lavelle,Simon Roffey,Katherine Weikert
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789256246

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Early Medieval Winchester by Ryan Lavelle,Simon Roffey,Katherine Weikert Pdf

Winchester’s identity as a royal centre became well established between the ninth and twelfth centuries, closely tied to the significance of the religious communities who lived within and without the city walls. The reach of power of Winchester was felt throughout England and into the Continent through the relationships of the bishops, the power fluctuations of the Norman period, the pursuit of arts and history writing, the reach of the city’s saints, and more. The essays contained in this volume present early medieval Winchester not as a city alone, but a city emmeshed in wider political, social, and cultural movements and, in many cases, providing examples of authority and power that are representative of early medieval England as a whole.

Author : Martin Bell
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789254037

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Making One's Way in the World by Martin Bell Pdf

The book draws on the evidence of landscape archaeology, palaeoenvironmental studies, ethnohistory and animal tracking to address the neglected topic of how we identify and interpret past patterns of movement in the landscape. It challenges the pessimism of previous generations which regarded prehistoric routes such as hollow ways as generally undatable. The premise is that archaeologists tend to focus on ‘sites’ while neglecting the patterns of habitual movement that made them part of living landscapes. Evidence of past movement is considered in a multi-scalar way from the individual footprint to the long distance path including the traces created in vegetation by animal and human movement. It is argued that routes may be perpetuated over long timescales creating landscape structures which influence the activities of subsequent generations. In other instances radical changes of axes of communication and landscape structures provide evidence of upheaval and social change. Palaeoenvironmental and ethnohistorical evidence from the American North West coast sets the scene with evidence for the effects of burning, animal movement, faeces deposition and transplantation which can create readable routes along which are favoured resources. Evidence from European hunter-gatherer sites hints at similar practices of niche construction on a range of spatial scales. On a local scale, footprints help to establish axes of movement, the locations of lost settlements and activity areas. Wood trackways likewise provide evidence of favoured patterns of movement and past settlement location. Among early farming communities alignments of burial mounds, enclosure entrances and other monuments indicate axes of communication. From the middle Bronze Age in Europe there is more clearly defined evidence of trackways flanked by ditches and fields. Landscape scale survey and excavation enables the dating of trackways using spatial relationships with dated features and many examples indicate long-term continuity of routeways. Where fields flank routeways a range of methods, including scientific approaches, provide dates. Prehistorians have often assumed that Ridgeways provided the main axes of early movement but there is little evidence for their early origins and rather better evidence for early routes crossing topography and providing connections between different environmental zones. The book concludes with a case study of the Weald of South East England which demonstrates that some axes of cross topographic movement used as droveways, and generally considered as early medieval, can be shown to be of prehistoric origin. One reason that dryland routes have proved difficult to recognise is that insufficient attention has been paid to the parts played by riverine and maritime longer distance communication. It is argued that understanding the origins of the paths we use today contributes to appreciation of the distinctive qualities of landscapes. Appreciation will help to bring about effective strategies for conservation of mutual benefit to people and wildlife by maintaining and enhancing corridors of connectivity between different landscape zones including fragmented nature reserves and valued places. In these ways an understanding of past routeways can contribute to sustainable landscapes, communities and quality of life

Author : Stephen Rippon,Neil Holbrook
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789256208

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Studies in the Roman and Medieval Archaeology of Exeter by Stephen Rippon,Neil Holbrook Pdf

This second volume presenting the research carried out through the Exeter: A Place in Time project presents a series of specialist contributions that underpin the general overview published in the first volume. Chapter 2 provides summaries of the excavations carried out within the city of Exeter between 1812 and 2019, while Chapter 3 draws together the evidence for the plan of the legionary fortress and the streets and buildings of the Roman town. Chapter 4 presents the medieval documentary evidence relating to the excavations at three sites in central Exeter (High Street, Trichay Street and Goldsmith Street), with the excavation reports being in Chapter 5-7. Chapter 8 reports on the excavations and documentary research at Rack Street in the south-east quarter of the city. There follows a series of papers covering recent research into the archaeometallurgical debris, dendrochronology, Roman pottery, Roman ceramic building material, Roman querns and millstones, Claudian coins, an overview of the Roman coins from Exeter and Devon, medieval pottery, and the human remains found in a series of medieval cemeteries.

Author : Martin Biddle,Jane Renfrew,Patrick Ottaway
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803270678

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Environment and Agriculture of Early Winchester by Martin Biddle,Jane Renfrew,Patrick Ottaway Pdf

This wide-ranging study describes the natural environment of Winchester and its immediate surroundings from the late Iron Age to the early post-medieval period. Historical and archaeological evidence consider humanity's interactions with the environment, fashioning agricultural, gardening and horticultural regimes over a millennium and a half.

Author : David A. Hinton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000583694

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Archaeology, Economy, and Society by David A. Hinton Pdf

This book examines the contribution of archaeology to the study of the social, economic, religious, and other developments in England from the end of the Roman period at the start of the fifth century to the beginnings of the Renaissance at the end of the fifteenth century. The first edition of the book was published in 1990, and remains the only synthesis of the whole spectrum of medieval archaeology. This new edition is completely rewritten and extended, but uses the same chronological approach to investigate how society and economy evolved. It draws on a wide range of new data, derived from excavation, investigation of buildings, metal-detection, and scientific techniques. It examines the social customs, economic pressures, and environmental constraints within which people functioned; the technology available to them; and how they expressed themselves, for example in their houses, their burial customs, their costume, and their material possessions such as pottery. Their adaptation to new circumstances, whether caused by human factors such as the re-emergence of towns or changing taxation requirements, or by external ones such as volcanic activity or the Black Death, is explored throughout each chapter. The new edition of Archaeology, Economy, and Society will be essential reading for students and researchers of the archaeology of Medieval England.

Author : Stephen Rippon,Neil Holbrook
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789256161

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Roman and Medieval Exeter and their Hinterlands by Stephen Rippon,Neil Holbrook Pdf

This first volume, presenting research carried out through the Exeter: A Place in Time project, provides a synthesis of the development of Exeter within its local, regional, national and international hinterlands. Exeter began life in c. AD 55 as one of the most important legionary bases within early Roman Britain, and for two brief periods in the early and late 60s AD, Exeter was a critical centre of Roman power within the new province. When the legion moved to Wales the fortress was converted into the civitas capital for the Dumnonii. Its development as a town was, however, relatively slow, reflecting the gradual pace at which the region as a whole adapted to being part of the Roman world. The only evidence we have for occupation within Exeter between the 5th and 8th centuries is for a church in what was later to become the Cathedral Close. In the late 9th century, however, Exeter became a defended burh, and this was followed by the revival of urban life. Exeter’s wealth was in part derived from its central role in the south-west’s tin industry, and by the late 10th century Exeter was the fifth most productive mint in England. Exeter’s importance continued to grow as it became an episcopal and royal centre, and excavations within Exeter have revealed important material culture assemblages that reflect its role as an international port.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1250 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433104246537

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The Literary World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004421899

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The Land of the English Kin by Anonim Pdf

This volume draws together a series of papers that present some of the most up-to-date thinking on the history, archaeology and toponymy of Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England more broadly. In honour of one of early medieval European scholarship’s most illustrious doyennes, no less than twenty-nine contributions demonstrate the indelible impression Barbara Yorke’s work has made on her peers and a generation of new scholars, some of whom have benefitted directly from her tutorage. From the identities that emerged in the immediate post-Roman period, through to the development of kingdoms, the role of the church, and impacts felt beyond the eleventh century, the rich and diverse character of the studies presented here are testimony to the versatility and extensive range of the honorand’s contribution to the academic field.

Author : Clarence Lewis Barnhart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015036876442

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The New Century Handbook of English Literature by Clarence Lewis Barnhart Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UIUC:30112064125799

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Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia and Fact-index by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Milton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1670
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCD:31175035164188

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The History of Britain, that Part Especially Now Call'd England by John Milton Pdf

Author : Patrick Ottaway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 0752429167

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Roman York by Patrick Ottaway Pdf

The great historic city of York owes its origins to the Roman army which built a fortress here on the banks of the River Ouse in AD 71. By the early third century York had also became the site of a major urban center and the capital of the northern half of Britain when what had been a single Roman province was divided into two. York’s importance is reflected in the fact that two Roman emperors died in the city: Septimius Severus in the year 211, and Constantius I in 306, his son Constantine was then acclaimed emperor here by his father’s troops. Roman York tells the story of the fortress and town from their foundation until the early fifth century when Britain ceased to be part of the Roman Empire. Particular emphasis is placed on the results of recent excavations and research which have added great deal to our knowledge and understanding of the people who lived in a place the Romans knew as Eboracum.

Author : Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015006965456

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John Keble's Parishes by Charlotte Mary Yonge Pdf