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Environment, Society and Landscape in Early Medieval England Time and Topography

Williamson, Tom
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781843837374
Publisert
2013
Utgiver
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Vekt
500 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, U, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
280

Forfatter
Williamson, Tom

Environment, Society and Landscape in Early Medieval England Time and Topography

Williamson, Tom
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk
Williamson, Tom
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk
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Should become essential reading for all scholars of the medieval landscape...it is insightful, challenging and thought-provoking.

MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY

[A] thoughtful, provocative and compelling book.

JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY

An ambitious book [that] will inevitably appear on students' reading lists.

LANDSCAPE HISTORY

Se alle

A splendid survey.

NORTHERN HISTORY

A tour de force which demonstrates both the seriousness and the importance of his scholarship. [It is] a model for the conceptualisation of historical process and provides an almost endless stimulus for new research.

MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT RESEARCH

[A] lucid and engaging book.

BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY

One of the strong features of this book is its survey of existing ideas and theories on such subjects as settlements, population, multiple estates, topography and social structure.

JOURNAL OF RURAL HISTORY

A compelling reframing of England's post-Roman history from the ground up, which successfully reveals 'the hidden hand of nature' lying behind many well known early medieval social and cultural developments. This book deserves to be read and referenced by all students of early medieval England.

THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW

The origins of England's regional cultures are here shown to be strongly influenced by the natural environment and geographical features. The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial in the development of England's character: its language, and much of its landscape and culture, were forged in the period between the fifth and the eleventh centuries. Historians and archaeologists have long been fascinated by its regional variations, by the way in which different parts of the country displayed marked differences in social structures, settlement patterns, and field systems. In this controversial and wide-ranging study, the author argues that such differences were largely a consequence of environmental factors: of the influence of climate, soils and hydrology, and of the patterns of contact and communication engendered by natural topography. He also suggests that such environmental influences have been neglected over recent decades by generations of scholars who are embedded in an urban culture and largely divorced from the natural world; and that an appreciation of the fundamental role of physical geography in shaping human affairs can throw much new light on a number of important debates about early medieval society. The book will be essential reading for all those interestedin the character of the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian settlements, in early medieval social and territorial organization, and in the origins of the England's medieval landscapes. Tom Williamson is Professor of LandscapeHistory, University of East Anglia; he has written widely on landscape archaeology, agricultural history, and the history of landscape design.
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The origins of England's regional cultures are here shown to be strongly influenced by the natural environment and geographical features.
Introduction Settlement and Society Nature's Frame Culture, Ethnicity and Topography Small Shires, Deep Roots The Gradient of Freedom 'Two Countrysides'? Village, Farm and Field Landscape and Settlement Woodland and pasture Conclusion: Time and Topography Bibliography
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Should become essential reading for all scholars of the medieval landscape...it is insightful, challenging and thought-provoking.

MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY

[A] thoughtful, provocative and compelling book.

JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY

An ambitious book [that] will inevitably appear on students' reading lists.

LANDSCAPE HISTORY

Se alle

A splendid survey.

NORTHERN HISTORY

A tour de force which demonstrates both the seriousness and the importance of his scholarship. [It is] a model for the conceptualisation of historical process and provides an almost endless stimulus for new research.

MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT RESEARCH

[A] lucid and engaging book.

BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY

One of the strong features of this book is its survey of existing ideas and theories on such subjects as settlements, population, multiple estates, topography and social structure.

JOURNAL OF RURAL HISTORY

A compelling reframing of England's post-Roman history from the ground up, which successfully reveals 'the hidden hand of nature' lying behind many well known early medieval social and cultural developments. This book deserves to be read and referenced by all students of early medieval England.

THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW

The origins of England's regional cultures are here shown to be strongly influenced by the natural environment and geographical features. The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial in the development of England's character: its language, and much of its landscape and culture, were forged in the period between the fifth and the eleventh centuries. Historians and archaeologists have long been fascinated by its regional variations, by the way in which different parts of the country displayed marked differences in social structures, settlement patterns, and field systems. In this controversial and wide-ranging study, the author argues that such differences were largely a consequence of environmental factors: of the influence of climate, soils and hydrology, and of the patterns of contact and communication engendered by natural topography. He also suggests that such environmental influences have been neglected over recent decades by generations of scholars who are embedded in an urban culture and largely divorced from the natural world; and that an appreciation of the fundamental role of physical geography in shaping human affairs can throw much new light on a number of important debates about early medieval society. The book will be essential reading for all those interestedin the character of the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian settlements, in early medieval social and territorial organization, and in the origins of the England's medieval landscapes. Tom Williamson is Professor of LandscapeHistory, University of East Anglia; he has written widely on landscape archaeology, agricultural history, and the history of landscape design.
Les mer
The origins of England's regional cultures are here shown to be strongly influenced by the natural environment and geographical features.
Introduction Settlement and Society Nature's Frame Culture, Ethnicity and Topography Small Shires, Deep Roots The Gradient of Freedom 'Two Countrysides'? Village, Farm and Field Landscape and Settlement Woodland and pasture Conclusion: Time and Topography Bibliography
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781843837374
Publisert
2013
Utgiver
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Vekt
500 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, U, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
280

Forfatter
Williamson, Tom

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