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A selection of papers on the Anglo-Saxon period, including papers
on non-ferrous dress-accessories from early medieval Lincoln; The
Anglo-Saxon settlement at Catholme, Staffordshire; transformation
and use of insular mounts from Viking-Age burials in TrOndelag
central Norway, and evidence from two rural Anglo-Saxon sites in
Suffolk.
Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History is an annual series
concerned with the archaeology and history of England and its
neighbours during the Anglo-Saxon period. ASSAH offers researchers
an opportunity to publish new work in an interdisciplinary and
multi-disciplinary forum which allows for a diversity of approaches
and subject matter. Contributions focus not just on Anglo-Saxon
England but also its international context.
An Open Access edition is available on the LUP and OAPEN websites.
Across Europe, the early medieval period saw the advent of new ways
of cereal farming which fed the growth of towns, markets and
populations, but also fuelled wealth disparities and the rise of
lordship. These developments have sometimes been referred to as
marking an 'agricultural revolution', yet the nature and timing of
these critical changes remain subject to intense debate, despite
more than a century of research. The papers in this volume
demonstrate how the combined application of cutting-edge scientific
analyses, along with new theoretical models and challenges to
conventional understandings, can reveal trajectories of
agricultural development which, while complementary overall, do not
indicate a single period of change involving the extension of
arable, the introduction of the mouldboard plough, and regular crop
rotation. Rather, these phenomena become evident at different times
and in different places across England throughout the period, and
rarely in an unambiguously 'progressive' fashion. Presenting
innovative bioarchaeological research from the ground-breaking
Feeding Anglo-Saxon England project, along with fresh insights into
ploughing technology, brewing, the nature of agricultural
revolutions, and farming practices in Roman Britain and Carolingian
Europe, this volume is a critical new contribution to environmental
archaeology and medieval studies in England and beyond.
Contributors: Amy Bogaard; Hannah Caroe; Neil Faulkner; Emily
Forster; Helena Hamerow; Matilda Holmes; Claus Kropp; Lisa Lodwick;
Mark McKerracher; Nicolas Schroeder; Elizabeth Stroud; Tom
Williamson.
Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History is a series
concerned with the archaeology and history of England and its
neighbours during the Anglo-Saxon period. ASSAH offers researchers
an opportunity to publish new work in an inter- and
multi-disciplinary forum that allows for a diversity of approaches
and subject matter. Contributions placing Anglo-Saxon England in
its international context are as warmly welcomed as those that
focus on England itself.
Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 20. Early Medieval
Monasticism in the North Sea Zone: Recent Research and New
Perspectives edited by Gabor Thomas and Alexandra Knox. ASSAH 20 is
based upon the proceedings of an international conference held to
celebrate the results of excavations targeting the Anglo-Saxon
royal centre and monastery of Lyminge, Kent, 2008-15. Drawing upon
the contributions of leading historians and archaeologists, the
volume provides a fresh examination of monasticism in Anglo-Saxon
Kent framed within its wider north-west European context, together
with a range of complementary perspectives on the interlinked
themes of Christianisation, kingdom formation and monastic
expansion vividly illuminated through the archaeology of Lyminge.
The reaction against archaeological explanations relying on
invasion and migration was part of the processualist critique in
the 1960s. Only recently have archaeologists like Kristiansen
argued that as migrations can be traced in the historical record,
some archaeological method of identifying them must be found. This
volume comes from a 1993 TAG session and pursues this issue.
Contents: On the Move Again: Migrations and Invasions in
Archaeological Explanation (John Chapman and Helena Hamerow); The
Impact of Modern Invasions and Migrations on Archaeological
Explanation (John Chapman); Prehistoric Migration as a Social
Process (David Anthony); Migration Theory and the Anglo-Saxon
'Identity Crisis' (Helena Hamerow); Britons, Anglo-Saxons and the
Germanic Burial Ritual (Sally Crawford); Social Network and Pattern
of Language Change (James Milroy and Lesley Milroy).
The eight papers in this volume examine recent archaeological and
historical research in Western and Southern Europe. Contributors
include: H Hamerow (Early medival communities in Northwest Europe);
G Halsall (The Merovingian period in northeast Gaul: Transition or
change?); C Haselgrove & C Scull (The changing structure of
rural settlement in southern Picardy during the first Millennium
AD); C Scull (Appraoches to material culture and social dynamics of
the Migration period of eastern England); C Loveluck (The formation
of Anglo-Saxon society in the English Peak District, 400-700 AD); N
Christie (Italy and the Roman to medieval transition); J Bintliff
(Current research on the origins of the traditional village in
central Greece) .
Since the early 20th century the scholarly study of Anglo-Saxon
texts has been augmented by systematic excavation and analysis of
physical evidence-settlements, cemeteries, artefacts, environmental
data, and standing buildings. This evidence has confirmed some
readings of the Anglo-Saxon literary and documentary sources and
challenged others. More recently, large-scale excavations both in
towns and in the countryside, the application of computer methods
to large bodies of data, new techniques for site identification
such as remote sensing, and new dating methods have put archaeology
at the forefront of Anglo-Saxon studies. The Handbook of
Anglo-Saxon Archaeology, written by a team of experts and
presenting the results of the most up-to-date research, will both
stimulate and support further investigation into those aspects of
Anglo-Saxon life and culture which archaeology has fundamentally
illuminated. It will prove an essential resourse for our
understanding of a society poised at the interface between
prehistory and history.
Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History (ASSAH) is a series
concerned with the archaeology and history of England and its
neighbours during the period circa AD 400-1100. ASSAH offers
researchers an opportunity to publish new work in an inter- and
multi-disciplinary forum that allows for a diversity of approaches
and subject matter. Contributions placing England in its
international context are as warmly welcomed as those that focus on
England itself.
In the course of the fifth century, the farms and villas of lowland
Britain were replaced by a new, distinctive form of rural
settlement: the settlements of Anglo-Saxon communities. This volume
presents the first major synthesis of the evidence - which has
expanded enormously in recent years - for such settlements from
across England and throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, and what it
reveals about the communities who built and lived in them, and
whose daily lives went almost wholly unrecorded. Helena Hamerow
examines the appearance, 'life-cycles', and function of their
buildings; the relationship of Anglo-Saxon settlements to the
Romano-British landscape and to later medieval villages; the role
of ritual in daily life; what distinguished 'rural' from 'urban' in
this early period; and the relationship between farming regimes and
settlement forms. A central theme throughout the book is the impact
on rural producers of the rise of lordship and markets and how this
impact is revealed through the remains of their settlements.
Hamerow provides an introduction to the wealth of information
yielded by settlement archaeology and to the enormous contribution
that it makes to our understanding of Anglo-Saxon society.
Rosemary Cramp's influence on the archaeology of early Medieval
Britain is nowhere more apparent than in these essays in her honour
by her former students. Monastic sites, Lindisfarne and Whithorn,
are the inspiration for Deirdre O'Sullivan's and Peter Hill's
papers; Chris Loveluck discusses the implications of the findings
from the newly-discovered settlement at Flixborough in
Lincolnshire; Nancy Edwards describes the early monumental
sculpture from St David's in South Wales; Martin Carver reviews the
politics of monumental sculpture and monumentality; and Catherine
Hills reassesses the significance of imported ivory found in
graves. Richard Bailey, Christopher Morris and Derek Craig top and
tail the book with tributes to Rosemary Cramp and a bibliography of
her work.
The excavation of settlements has in recent years transformed our
understanding of north-west Europe in the early Middle Ages. We can
for the first time begin to answer fundamental questions such as:
what did houses look like and how were they furnished? how did
villages and individual farmsteads develop? how and when did
agrarian production become intensified and how did this affect
village communities? what role did craft production and trade play
in the rural economy? In a period for which written sources are
scarce, archaeology is of central importance in understanding the
'small worlds' of early medieval communities. Helena Hamerow's
extensively illustrated and accessible study offers the first
overview and synthesis of the large and rapidly growing body of
evidence for early medieval settlements in north-west Europe, as
well as a consideration of the implications of this evidence for
Anglo-Saxon England. SERIES DESCRIPTION The aim of the series is to
reflect the creative dialogue that is developing between the
disciplines of medieval history and archaeology. It will integrate
archaeological and historical approaches to aspects of medieval
society, economy, and culture. A range of archaeological evidence
will be presented and interpreted in ways accessible to historians,
while providing a historical perspective and context for those
studying the material culture of the period.
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