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The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE (Hardcover)
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The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE (Hardcover)
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Although lowland Britain in 300 CE had been as Roman as any
province in the empire, in the generations on either side of 400,
urban life, the money economy, and the functioning state collapsed.
Many of the most quotidian and fundamental elements of Roman-style
material culture ceased to be manufactured. Skills related to iron
and copper smelting, wooden board and plank making, stone
quarrying, commercial butchery, horticulture, and tanning largely
disappeared, as did the knowledge standing behind the production of
wheel-thrown, kiln-fired pottery and building in stone. No other
period in Britain's prehistory or history witnessed the loss of so
many classes of once-common skills and objects. While the reasons
for this breakdown remain unclear, it is indisputable the collapse
was foundational in the making of a new world we characterize as
early medieval. The standard explanation for the emergence of the
new-style material culture found in lowland Britain by the last
quarter of the fifth century is that foreign objects were brought
in by "Anglo-Saxon" settlers. Marshalling a wealth of
archaeological evidence, Robin Fleming argues instead that not only
Continental immigrants, but also the people whose ancestors had
long lived in Britain built this new material world together from
the ashes of the old, forging an identity that their descendants
would eventually come to think of as English. As with most
identities, she cautions, this was one rooted in neither birth nor
blood, but historically constructed, and advanced and maintained
over the generations by the shared material culture and practices
that developed during and after Rome's withdrawal from Britain.
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