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Zusatztext a volume full of insights which makes a stimulating introduction to an important subject. Informationen zum Autor John Blair is Lecturer in Modern History and Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at Queen's College, Oxford. Klappentext The first study of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman canals and waterways, this book is based on new evidence surrounding the nature of water transport in the period. A collection of essays from economic historians, geographers, geomorphologists, archaeologists, and place-name scholars, this study unearths this neglected but important aspect of medieval engineering and economic growth. Its new perspective broadens our understanding of the economy, landscape, settlement patterns, and inter-regional contacts of medieval England. Zusammenfassung The first study of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman canals and waterways, this book is based on new evidence surrounding the nature of water transport in the period. England is naturally well-endowed with a network of navigable rivers, especially the easterly systems draining into the Thames, Wash and Humber. The central middle ages saw innovative and extensive development of this network, including the digging of canals bypassing difficult stretches of rivers, or linking rivers to important production centres. The eleventh and twelfth centuries seem to have been the high point for this dynamic approach to water-transport: after 1200, the improvement of roads and bridges increasingly diverted resources away from the canals, many of which stagnated with the reassertion of natural drainage patterns. The new perspective presented in this study has an important bearing on the economy, landscape, settlement patterns and inter-regional contacts of medieval England. Essays from economic historians, geographers, geomorphologists, archaeologists, and place-name scholars unearth this neglected but important aspect of medieval engineering and economic growth. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: Waterways, Geography and Economy 1: FIONA EDMONDS: Barrier or Unifying Feature? Defining the Nature of Early Medieval Water Transport in the North-West 2: DELLA HOOKE: Uses of Waterways in Anglo-Saxon England 3: ANN COLE: The Place-Name Evidence for Water Transport in Early Medieval England 4: MARK GARDINER: Hythes, Small Ports and Other Landing Places in Later Medieval England 5: JOHN LANGDON: The Efficiency of Inland Water Transport in Medieval England Part II: Improved Waterways and Canals 6: ED RHODES: Identifying Human Modification of River Channels 7: JAMES BOND: Canal Construction in the Early Middle Ages: an Introductory Review 8: STEPHEN RIPPON: Waterways and Water Transport on Reclaimed Coastal Marshlands: the Somerset Levels and Beyond 9: CHARLES and NANCY HOLLINRAKE: The Water Roads of Somerset 10: CHARLES and NANCY HOLLINRAKE: Glastonbury's Anglo-Saxon Canal and Dunstan's Dyke 11: CHRISTOPHER K. CURRIE: Early Water Management on the Lower River Itchen in Hampshire 12: JOHN BLAIR: Transport and Canal-Building on the Upper Thames, 1000-1300 ...
