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Most places in Britain have had a local history written about them. Up until this century these histories have addressed more parochial issues, such as the life of the manor, rather than explaining the features and changes in the landscape in a factual manner. Much of what is visible today in Britain's landscape is the result of a chain of social and natural processes, and can be interpreted through fieldwork as well as from old maps and documents. Michael Aston uses a wide range of source material to study the complex and dynamic history of the countryside, illustrating his points with aerial photographs, maps, plans and charts. He shows how to understand the surviving remains as well as offering his own explanations for how our landscape has evolved. eBook available with sample pages: 0203442121
Most places in Britain have had a local history written about them.
Up until this century these histories have addressed more parochial
issues, such as the life of the manor, rather than explaining the
features and changes in the landscape in a factual manner. Much of
what is visible today in Britain's landscape is the result of a
chain of social and natural processes, and can be interpreted
through fieldwork as well as from old maps and documents. Michael
Aston uses a wide range of source material to study the complex and
dynamic history of the countryside, illustrating his points with
aerial photographs, maps, plans and charts. He shows how to
understand the surviving remains as well as offering his own
explanations for how our landscape has evolved.
Demonstrating the range and popularity of Bach piano transcriptions
during the early twentieth century, this volume brings together
arrangements from notable British musical figures, including Myra
Hess, Leonard Borwick, Harriet Cohen, and William H. Harris. The
collection includes exuberant fantasias and fugues, gentle
transcriptions from instrumental works, and popular chorales such
as 'Jesu, joy of man's desiring' and 'Bist du bei mir'. With an
introduction by David Owen Norris, Bach Transcriptions for Piano is
the perfect resource for all intermediate to advanced pianists
wishing to further explore Bach's music.
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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