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The Landscape Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England (Hardcover, New)
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The Landscape Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England (Hardcover, New)
Series: Pubns Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies
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The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial to the development of the
English landscape, but is rarely studied. The essays here provide
radical new interpretations of its development. Traditional opinion
has perceived the Anglo-Saxons as creating an entirely new
landscape from scratch in the fifth and sixth centuries AD, cutting
down woodland, and bringing with them the practice of open field
agriculture, and establishing villages. Whilst recent scholarship
has proved this simplistic picture wanting, it has also raised many
questions about the nature of landscape development at the time,
the changing nature of systems of land management, and strategies
for settlement. The papers here seek to shed new light on these
complex issues. Taking a variety of different approaches, and with
topics ranging from the impact of coppicing to medieval field
systems, from the representation of the landscape in manuscripts to
cereal production and the type of bread the population preferred,
they offer striking new approaches to the central issues of
landscape change across the seven centuries of Anglo-Saxon England,
a period surely foundational to the rural landscape of today.
NICHOLAS J. HIGHAM is Professor of Early Medieval and Landscape
History at the University of Manchester; MARTIN J. RYAN lectures in
Medieval History at the University of Manchester. Contributors:
Nicholas J. Higham, Christopher Grocock, Stephen Rippon, Stuart
Brookes, Carenza Lewis, Susan Oosthuizen, Tom Williamson, Catherine
Karkov, David Hill, Debby Banham, Richard Hoggett, Peter Murphy.
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