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Making a Christian Landscape - How Christianity Shaped the Countryside in Early-Medieval Cornwall, Devon and Wessex (Paperback)
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Making a Christian Landscape - How Christianity Shaped the Countryside in Early-Medieval Cornwall, Devon and Wessex (Paperback)
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Sam Turner's important new interpretation of early medieval
patterns of landscape development traces landscape change in the
South West from the introduction of Christianity to the Norman
Conquest (AD c. 450-1070). 16 pages of colour illustrations. The
book stresses the significance of political and religious ideology
in both the 'Celtic' west (especially Cornwall) and the
'Anglo-Saxon' east (especially the Wessex counties of Devon,
Somerset, Wiltshire and Dorset). Using innovative new research
methods, and making use of archaeology, place-name evidence,
historical sources and land-use patterns, it challenges previous
work on the subject by suggesting that the two regions have much in
common. Using modern mapping techniques to explore land-use trends,
Turner advances a new model for the evolution of ecclesiastical
institutions in south-west England. He shows that the early
development of Christianity had an impact on the countryside that
remains visible in the landscape we see today. Accessibly written
with a glossary of terms and a comprehensive bibliography, the book
will appeal to both veterans and newcomers to landscape
archaeology.
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