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Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England (Paperback)
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Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England (Paperback)
Series: Medieval History and Archaeology
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In the course of the fifth century, the farms and villas of lowland
Britain were replaced by a new, distinctive form of rural
settlement: the settlements of the Anglo-Saxons. This volume
presents the first major synthesis of the evidence - which has
expanded enormously in recent years - for such settlements from
across England and throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, and what it
reveals about the communities who built and lived in them, and
whose daily lives went almost wholly unrecorded. Helena Hamerow
examines the appearance, function, and 'life-cycles' of their
buildings; the relationship of Anglo-Saxon settlements to the
Romano-British landscape and to later medieval villages; the role
of ritual in daily life; and the relationship between farming
regimes and settlement forms. A central theme throughout the book
is the impact on rural producers of the rise of lordship and
markets, and how this impact is reflected in the remains of their
settlements. Hamerow provides an introduction to the wealth of
information yielded by settlement archaeology, and to the enormous
contribution that it makes to our understanding of Anglo-Saxon
society.
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