Anglo-Saxon Settlement
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Barton Court Farm
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Christianisation of Europe
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Early Anglo-Saxon
Early Anglo-Saxon Settlements
Early Byzantine
early medieval agriculture
Early Medieval Settlement
El Ruedo
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Late Antique
Late Antique Landscapes
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Late Roman Britain
Late Roman Pottery
Late Roman Villa
Lepcis Magna
Main Villa
Palatial Villas
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Piazza Armerina
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Roman Villa
Romano British Villas
rural landscape change fourth to tenth centuries
Rutilius Namatianus
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- ISBN 9781840146172
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jul 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Only in recent years has archaeology begun to examine in a coherent manner the transformation of the landscape from classical through to medieval times. In Landscapes of Change, leading scholars in the archaeology of the late antique and early medieval periods address the key results and directions of Roman rural fieldwork. In so doing, they highlight problems of analysis and interpretation whilst also identifying the variety of transformations that rural Europe experienced during and following the decline of Roman hegemony. Whilst documents and standing buildings predominate in the urban context to provide a coherent and tangible guide to the evolving urban form and its society since Roman times, the countryside in many ages remains rather shadowy - a context for the cultivation, gathering and movement of food and other resources, inhabited by farmers, villagers and miners. Whilst the Roman period is adequately served through occasional extant remains and through the survey and excavation of villas and farmsteads, as well as the writings of agronomists, the medieval one is generally well marked by the presence of still extant villages across Europe, often dependent on castles and manors which symbolise the so-called 'feudal' centuries. But the intervening period, the fourth to tenth centuries, is that with the least documentation and with the fewest survivals. What happened to the settlement units that made up the Roman rural world? When and why do new settlement forms emerge? Landscapes of Change is essential reading for anyone wanting an up-to-date summary of the results of archaeological and historical investigations into the changing countryside of the late Roman, late antique and early medieval world, between the fourth and tenth centuries AD. It questions numerous aspects of change and continuity, assessing the levels of impact of military and economic decay, the spread and influence of Christianity, and the role of Germanic, Slav and Arab settlements in disrupting and redefining the ancient rural landscapes.
Neil Christie, University of Leicester, UK Neil Christie, Sarah Scott, Alexandra Chavarria Arnau, Paul Arthur, Anna Leone, David Mattingly, G.D.R. Sanders, William Bowden, Richard Hodges, Andrew Poulter, Patrick Perin, Ken Dark, Helena Hamerow.
