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Landscape And Townscape In The South West (Paperback)
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Landscape And Townscape In The South West (Paperback)
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This book examines recent views on the emerging settlement patterns
of early medieval Britain and their relation to land use, drawing
on both archaeological and documentary sources. Six essays,
displaying the combined skills of historians, archaeologists and
geographers, explore the evolution of the South West in rural and
urban contexts across many centuries. Simon Esmonde Cleary takes
the study from the later Romano-British into the post-Roman period;
Christopher Holdsworth examines the re-emergence of Christianity in
sixth-century England, the location of minsters and their role in
the economy. The problematic theme of continuity or dislocation
recurs in a number of chapters and is closely investigated by Peter
Rose and Ann Preston Jones in their chapter on Cornwall, a region
marginal to the main thrust of Anglo-Saxon cultural influence.
Ethnicity as a factor for change is challenged and Colleen Batey,
looking at Northern Britain, finds that archaeology fails to
identify with any degree of certainty the specific Scandinavian
house type in the uplands. Della Hooke presents a more general
summary of the period across England, noting the evidence for the
emerging landscape regions which were characterized by particular
settlement types and field systems and, in a case study of the
Failand ridge in North Somerset, James Bond sets the evidence
within a much broader time scale, revealing the gaps which still
caracterize our knowledge of the early medieval period.
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