Medieval European Archaeology

The majority of literature about the Viking period, based on artefacts or written sources, covers battles, kings, chiefs and mercenaries, long dist...

The redevelopment of the Elephant and Castle Leisure Centre in Southwark, built on the churchyard of the former church of St. Mary Newington, provi...

Beneath the housing estates of Gaywood within the urban reach of modern Kings Lynn lies a former saltmarsh Gaywoods North Marsh which once played...

Despite extensive archaeological investigations in Norwich over many decades, its Middle Saxon origins as Norvic/Northwic remain obscure and elusiv...

This richly illustrated book presents the first comprehensive study of the making and marketing of pottery in medieval Ireland. Focusing on a well-...

Bosworth stands alongside Naseby and Hastings as one of the three most iconic battles ever fought on English soil. The action on 22 August 1485 bro...

The Henry VII and Elizabeth of York marriage bed, rediscovered in 2010, is an exceptional piece of late medieval English royal furniture: no other ...

This volume, with origins in a panel at the 2018 Celtic Conference in Classics, presents creative new approaches to epigraphic material, in an atte...

How can pottery studies contribute to the study of medieval archaeology? How do pots relate to documents, landscapes and identities? These are the ...

This book charts the rise of and interplay between the first Mediterranean civilisations with particular reference to the Minoan, Cycladic, Mycena...

The Domesday Book, commissioned in December 1085 by order of William The Conqueror, is generally thought to have been used to assess wealth and ass...

Viking Identities is the first detailed archaeological study of Viking-Age Scandinavian-style female dress items from England. Based on primary arc...

An extremely comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to the history and evolution of the castle under Wales' native rulers (c.1066-1283). Spectacula...

This book represents the outcome of the Conference on Church Archaeology in the Baltic Sea Region held in August 2013 in Turku, Finland, which, in ...

Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World seeks to illuminate important aspects of daily living and the experience of t...

The Material Culture of the Built Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World, second volume of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World, continues to introd...

Gallaecia Gothica offers a new interpretation of the Argimundus rebellion, one of the most difficult challenges of Reccareds reign. There are no sp...

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The Merovingian era is one of the best studied yet least well known periods of European history. From the fifth to the eighth centuries, the inhabi...

Perchement et Réalités Fortifiées en Mediterranee et en Europe, Vème-Xème Siècles / Fortified Hilltop Settlements in the Mediterranean and in Europ...

This volume explores the final phase of the West Roman Empire, particularly the changing interactions between the imperial authority and external '...

The early medieval period witnessed one of the deepest and most significant transformations of European societies and cultures with the process of ...

Echoes of the Middle Ages are all around us in Britain. Sites like the Tower of London, Hampton Court, and the castles of Scotland and Wales are ma...

From the eighth century to the turn of the millennium, East Anglia had a variety of identities thrust upon it by authors of the period who envision...

This attractive booklet is a guide to two walks around the historic town of Sandwich, once one of the great ports of medieval England. As a Cinqu...

Charlemagne and Rome is a wide-ranging exploration of cultural politics in the age of Charlemagne. It focuses on a remarkable inscription commemora...

This wide-ranging study uses historical and archaeological evidence to consider humanity's interactions with the environment, fashioning agricultur...

Excavated plans of roundhouses may compound multiple episodes of activity, design, construction, occupation, repair, and closure, reflecting succes...

The societies of ancient Europe underwent a continual process of militarisation, and this would come to be a defining characteristic of the early M...

This latest title in the highly successful Ancient Textiles series is the first substantial monograph-length historiography of early medieval embro...

The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial to the development of the English landscape, but is rarely studied. The essays here provide radical new interpre...

Over 400 recent finds associated with horses and excavated in London, from the utilitarian to the highly decorated, illustrated and discussed. Wh...

The huge changes in the landscape as a result of the Christian conversion of East Anglia are examined in this multi-disciplinary study. The conver...

The massive ancient linear earthwork that provides the sole commemoration of an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon king and that gives its name to one of ou...