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Author : Teresa Anne Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Minster Churches in the Dorset Landscape written by Teresa Anne Hall and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Teresa Anne Hall
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Minster Churches in the Dorset Landscape written by Teresa Anne Hall and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed examination of high-status churches and their environment in the Dorset or Wessex landscape in order to trace continuity from Roman and early Christian sites.
Author : Tim Pestell
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843830627
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Landscapes of Monastic Foundation written by Tim Pestell and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-Conquest monastic foundations, (in the present-day counties of Norfolk and Suffolk) in their topographical, social, economic and political environment; evolution of religious devotion in East Anglia since the 7th-century Conversion; the influence of the Anglo-Saxon past on the post-Conquest monastic landscape.
Author : Stephen Rippon
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199533784
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Making Sense of an Historic Landscape written by Stephen Rippon and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how the archaeologist or historian can understand variations in landscapes. Making use of a wide range of sources and techniques, including archaeological material, documentary sources, and maps, Rippon illustrates how local and regional variations in the 'historic landscape' can be understood.
Author : Nancy Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351546570
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of the Early Medieval Celtic Churches: No. 29 written by Nancy Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on new research on the archaeology of the early medieval Celtic churches c AD 400-1100 in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, south-west Britain and Brittany. The 21 papers use a variety of approaches to explore and analyse the archaeological evidence for the origins and development of the Church in these areas. The results of a recent multi-disciplinary research project to identify the archaeology of the early medieval church in different regions of Wales are considered alongside other new research and the discoveries made in excavations in both Wales and beyond. The papers reveal not only aspects of the archaeology of ecclesiastical landscapes with their monasteries, churches and cemeteries, but also special graves, relics, craftworking and the economy enabling both comparisons and contrasts. They likewise engage with ongoing debates concerning interpretation: historiography and the concept of the Celtic Church, conversion to Christianity, Christianization of the landscape and the changing functions and inter-relationships of sites, the development of saints cults, sacred space and pilgrimage landscapes and the origins of the monastic town .
Author : Alexander Langlands
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1911188542
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (111 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Ways of Wessex written by Alexander Langlands and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ancient Ways of Wessex tells the story of Wessex’s roads in the early medieval period, at the point at which they first emerge in the historical record. This is the age of the Anglo-Saxons and an era that witnessed the rise of a kingdom that was taken to the very brink of defeat by the Viking invasions of the ninth century. It is a period that goes on to become one within which we can trace the beginnings of the political entity we have come to know today as England. In a series of ten detailed case studies the reader is invited to consider historical and archaeological evidence, alongside topographic information and ancient place-names, in the reconstruction of the networks of routeways and communications that served the people and places of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. Whether you were a peasant, pilgrim, drover, trader, warrior, bishop, king or queen, travel would have been fundamental to life in the early middle ages and this book explores the physical means by which the landscape was constituted to facilitate and improve the movement of people, goods and ideas from the seventh through to the eleventh centuries. What emerges is a dynamic web of interconnecting routeways serving multiple functions and one, perhaps, even busier than that in our own working countryside. A narrative of transition, one of both of continuity and change, provides a fresh and alternative window into the everyday workings of an early medieval landscape through the pathways trodden over a millennium ago.
Author : Carole Lomas
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803275804
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Reconstructing the Development of Somerset’s Early Medieval Church written by Carole Lomas and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses Somerset as a case study to contribute to a broader understanding of how the Church developed across the British Isles during the transition from the post-Roman Church to the 11th century. It collates and cross-references all earlier research and offers the most up-to-date study of Somerset’s post-Roman churches.
Author : N. J. Higham
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843836033
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Place-names, Language and the Anglo-Saxon Landscape written by N. J. Higham and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the landscape of Anglo-Saxon England, particularly through the prism of place-names and what they can reveal.
Author : John Blair
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198226950
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)
Download or read book The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society written by John Blair and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-20 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the impact of the first monasteries in the seventh century, to the emergence of the local parochial system five hundred years later, the Church was a force for change in Anglo-Saxon society. It shaped culture and ideas, social and economic behaviour, and the organization of landscape and settlement. This book traces how the widespread foundation of monastic sites ('minsters') during c.670-730 gave the recently pagan English new ways of living, of exploiting their resources, andof absorbing European culture, as well as opening new spiritual and intellectual horizons. Through the era of Viking wars, and the tenth-century reconstruction of political and economic life, the minsters gradually lost their wealth, their independence, and their role as sites of high culture, butgrew in stature as foci of local society and eventually towns. After 950, with the increasing prominence of manors, manor-houses, and village communities, a new and much larger category of small churches were founded, endowed, and rebuilt: the parish churches of the emergent eleventh- and twelfth-century local parochial system. In this innovative study, John Blair brings together written, topographical, and archaeological evidence to build a multi-dimensional picture of what local churches andlocal communities meant to each other in early England.
Author : Rosemary Cramp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780197263341
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture in England written by Rosemary Cramp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analytical catalogue of sculpture from the historic counties of Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire provides a new perspective on the artistic achievement of the late Saxon kingdom. The volume includes individual pieces of the highest quality such as the Bradford-on-Avon and Winterbourne Steepleton angels or the newly discovered figures from Congresbury. Most of the monuments were carved at a time when Wessex art was at its zenith in the tenth and eleventh centuries, a formative period for English cultural identity. This volume sets the sculpture within an historical, topographical and art-historical context, highlighting the close links with contemporary styles in manuscripts and metalwork. Full photographic records of each monument present many new illustrations unique to this volume. An indispensable research tool for all those interested in the early medieval world, this volume is also an authoritative aid for local historians.
Author : Stephen Rippon
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783276800
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Territoriality and the Early Medieval Landscape written by Stephen Rippon and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All communities have a strong sense of identity with the area in which they live, which for England in the early medieval period manifested itself in a series of territorial entities, ranging from large kingdoms down to small districts known as pagi or regiones. This book investigates these small early folk territories, and the way that they evolved into the administrative units recorded in Domesday, across an entire kingdom - that of the East Saxons (broadly speaking, what is now Essex, Middlesex, most of Hertfordshire, and south Suffolk). A wide range of evidence is drawn upon, including archaeology, written documents, place-names and the early cartographic sources. The book looks in particular at the relationship between Saxon immigrants and the native British population, and argues that initially these ethnic groups occupied different parts of the landscape, until a dynasty which assumed an Anglo-Saxon identity achieved political ascendency (its members included the so-called "Prittlewell Prince", buried with spectacular grave-good in Prittlewell, near Southend-on- Sea in southern Essex). Other significant places discussed include London, the seat of the first East Saxon bishopric, the possible royal vills at Wicken Bonhunt near Saffron Walden and Maldon, and St Peter's Chapel at Bradwell-on-Sea, one of the most important surviving churches from the early Christian period.
Author : Christopher Gerrard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351194933
Total Pages : 1939 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The Shapwick Project, Somerset written by Christopher Gerrard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 1939 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to the Shapwick Project's objectives, geographical background and previous work in the Somerset. It deals with excavations in the outlying parish and focuses on work in the village at Shapwick House.
Author : Joseph Sterrett
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004202994
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Sacred Text -- Sacred Space written by Joseph Sterrett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essentially interdisciplinary, this innovative collection of essays - religious case-histories of many kinds from three eras, - explores in depth the dynamic interaction of sacred text and sacred space, forming and reforming through time, to shape and voice one another.
Download or read book ANTIQUITY written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Blair
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691228426
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Building Anglo-Saxon England written by John Blair and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize A radical rethinking of the Anglo-Saxon world that draws on the latest archaeological discoveries This beautifully illustrated book draws on the latest archaeological discoveries to present a radical reappraisal of the Anglo-Saxon built environment and its inhabitants. John Blair, one of the world's leading experts on this transformative era in England's early history, explains the origins of towns, manor houses, and castles in a completely new way, and sheds new light on the important functions of buildings and settlements in shaping people's lives during the age of the Venerable Bede and King Alfred. Building Anglo-Saxon England demonstrates how hundreds of recent excavations enable us to grasp for the first time how regionally diverse the built environment of the Anglo-Saxons truly was. Blair identifies a zone of eastern England with access to the North Sea whose economy, prosperity, and timber buildings had more in common with the Low Countries and Scandinavia than the rest of England. The origins of villages and their field systems emerge with a new clarity, as does the royal administrative organization of the kingdom of Mercia, which dominated central England for two centuries. Featuring a wealth of color illustrations throughout, Building Anglo-Saxon England explores how the natural landscape was modified to accommodate human activity, and how many settlements--secular and religious—were laid out with geometrical precision by specialist surveyors. The book also shows how the Anglo-Saxon love of elegant and intricate decoration is reflected in the construction of the living environment, which in some ways was more sophisticated than it would become after the Norman Conquest.
Author : Patricia Helen Coulstock
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780851153391
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (533 download)
Download or read book The Collegiate Church of Wimborne Minster written by Patricia Helen Coulstock and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1993 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A case-study of the changing fortunes of an English parish church during the middle ages, from its foundation in 718.
Author : Michael J. Allen
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1914427386
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (144 download)
Download or read book A Date with the Two Cerne Giants written by Michael J. Allen and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The date of the Cerne Giant has long been a matter for debate, as exemplified by a public and televised debate of March 1996, published as The Cerne Giant: An Antiquity on Trial (1999, Oxbow Books). Excavations were conducted in 2020 by the National Trust in the centenary year of its ownership of the Giant. The excavations were limited and targeted in extent and scope, the aim was to date the actual construction of the iconic figure by absolute dating methods (OSL). As the 1999 publication explained, the jury was still out – with advocates for a prehistoric origin, one connected to the period of the Civil War or a more modern one. In the event, the dates were a complete surprise, falling within the Anglo-Saxon period. The research has provided an accurate, scientifically verified date for the Cerne Giant. These unexpected results, together with the land-use history and ominous ‘disappearance’ of the Giant for six centuries, provide the platform for reconsideration and new discussion and debate. Part 1 deals with new research: the historical background and aims, the excavation results, stratigraphic finds, geoarchaeological interpretation, land-use history (environmental/land snails), and discussion. Part 2 is the wider discussion and implications derived from the results and places the Giant in his local and Saxon context. Part 3 begins with summaries of the other two excavated hill figures (the Long Man of Wilmington and the Uffington White Horse) followed by a series of essays from leading archaeologists, historians and experts in early medieval iconography.
