Early Medieval Settlements - The Archaeology of Rural Communities in North-West Europe 400-900

Zusatztext Review from previous edition this book should provide a most helpful resource for students and reference book for a wide range of specialists with interests in the economic and social history of Early-medieval Europe ... the series is off to a fine start with this volume. Klappentext 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 develop? how and when did agrarian production become intensified and how did this affect village communities? what role did craft production and trade play in the rural economy? In a period for which written sources are scarce! archaeology is of central importance in understanding the 'small worlds' of early medieval communities. Helena Hamerow's extensively illustrated and accessible study offers the first overview and synthesis of the large and rapidly growing body of evidence for early medieval settlements in north-west Europe! as well as a consideration of the implications of this evidence for Anglo-Saxon England. Zusammenfassung The excavation of settlements has transformed the understanding of life in north-west Europe during the early Middle Ages. This work offers an overview and synthesis of the body of archaeological evidence for early medieval buildings, settlements, farming, craft production, and trade among the rural communities of this region. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Archaeological Approaches and Frameworks 2: Houses and Households: The Archaeology of Buildings 3: Settlement Structure and Social Space 4: Land and Power: Settlements in their Territorial Context 5: The Forces of Production: Crop and Animal Husbandry 6: Rural Centres, Trade, and Production Bibliography Index

Summary

The excavation of settlements has transformed the understanding of life in north-west Europe during the early Middle Ages. This work offers an overview and synthesis of the body of archaeological evidence for early medieval buildings, settlements, farming, craft production, and trade among the rural communities of this region.

Product details

• Authors: Helena Hamerow, Helena (University Lecturer in Medieval A Hamerow, Hamerow Helena
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2004
• EAN: 9780199273188
• ISBN: 978-0-19-927318-8
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Medieval History and Archaeology; Medieval History and Archaeolo; Medieval History and Archaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Western, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Western Europe, Ancient History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Archaeology by period / region, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Western Continental Europe, Medieval European archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Nordic Countries