Formative Britain - An Archaeology of Britain, Fifth to Eleventh Century Ad

Informationen zum Autor Martin Carver was an army officer for 15 years, a freelance commercial archaeologist for 13 years and Professor of Archaeology at the University of York for 22 years, retiring in 2008. From 2002 until 2012 he was editor of the global archaeology journal Antiquity . He has researched post-Roman towns in Britain, France, Italy and Algeria and excavated large sites of the first millennium AD at Sutton Hoo (Suffolk) and Portmahomack (north-east Scotland). He has produced numerous articles, lectures and broadcasts on the peoples of early Britain, and his latest books are Sutton Hoo: Encounters with Early England , Portmahomack: Monastery of the Picts and Archaeological Investigation (for Routledge). Zusammenfassung This volume provides a detailed study of the archaeology of Britain and its inshore islands between AD 400 and 1100. For the first time a single-author book treats early medieval Britain as a whole, enabling Carver to show that the primary cultural, political and ideological foundations of the island’s population were laid during this time. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTS List of figures List of abbreviations Picture credits Preface Chapter 1 Inheritance: landscapes and predecessors Chapter 2: Looking for personhood: physique and adornment Chapter 3: Working from home: settlement and economies Chapter 4 Addressing eternity: cemeteries as ritual places Chapter 5 Monumentality: sculpture, churches and illuminated books Chapter 6: Materiality of words: myths and records Chapter 7 Narratives – reflections - legacies References Index

Product details

• Authors: Martin Carver, Martin (University of York Carver, Carver Martin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780415524742
• ISBN: 978-0-415-52474-2
• No. of pages: 736
• Series: Routledge World Archaeology; Routledge Archaeology of Northern Europe; Routledge Archaeology of Northern Europe
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Horticulture, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Archaeology by period / region, c 500 to c 1000 CE, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE