Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-saxon England

Zusatztext represent[s] some of the best current research on early medieval England ... Local historians and archaeologists are strongly encouraged to explore them for themselves. Informationen zum Autor Following a BA in Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Helena Hamerow completed a D.Phil. at the University of Oxford in 1988. She then held the Mary Somerville Research Fellowship at Somerville College, Oxford until 1990, when she took up a Lectureship in Early Medieval Archaeology at Durham University. She returned to Oxford in 1996 where she is currently Professor or Early Medieval Archaeology and a Fellow of St Cross College. She is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Klappentext The first major synthesis of the evidence for Anglo-Saxon settlements from across England and throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, and a study of what it reveals about the communities who built and lived in them. Zusammenfassung The first major synthesis of the evidence for Anglo-Saxon settlements from across England and throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, and a study of what it reveals about the communities who built and lived in them. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures Preface and Acknowledgements 1: The Study of Anglo-Saxon Rural Settlements 2: Anglo-Saxon Buildings: Form, Function, and Social Space 3: Settlement Forms and Community Structures 4: Ritual and Domestic Life 5: Farming Systems and Settlement Forms 6: Production, Exchange, and the Shape of Rural Communities References Index

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• Autori: Helena Hamerow, Helena (Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology Hamerow, Hamerow Helena
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2012
• EAN: 9780199203253
• ISBN: 978-0-19-920325-3
• Serie: Medieval History and Archaeology; Medieval History and Archaeology; Medieval History and Archaeolo
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Europe, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, CE period up to c 1500, British & Irish history, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Archaeology by period / region, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Medieval European archaeology