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Interpreting Transformations of People and Landscapes in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages - Archaeological Approaches and Issues (Hardcover)
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Interpreting Transformations of People and Landscapes in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages - Archaeological Approaches and Issues (Hardcover)
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In this volume of papers, deriving from two conferences held in
Rome and Leicester in 2016, nineteen leading European
archaeologists discuss and interpret the complex evolution of
landscapes - both urban and rural - across Late Antiquity and the
Early Middle Ages (c. AD 300-700). The geographical coverage
extends from Italy to the Mediterranean West through to the Rhine
frontier and onto Hadrian's Wall. Core are questions of impacts due
to the socio-political, religious, military and economic
transformations affecting provinces, territories and kingdoms
across these often turbulent centuries: how did townscapes change
and at what rate? What were the fates of villas? When do
post-classical landscapes emerge and in what form? To what degree
did Europe become an insecure, defended landscape? In what ways did
people - cityfolk, farmers, nobility, churchmen, merchants - adapt?
Do the elite remain visible and how prominent is the Church? Where
and how do we see culture change through the arrival of new groups
or new ideas? Do burials form a clear guide to the changing world?
And how did the environment change in this period of stress - was
the classical period landscape much altered through the attested
depopulation and economic deterioration? And underlying much of the
discussion is a consideration of the nature and quality of our
source material: how good is the archaeology of these periods and
how good is our current reading of the materials available?
Combined, these expert studies offer valuable new analyses of
people and places in a complex, challenging and crucial period in
European history.
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