Author: John Blair
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In the eleventh century Oxford was one of the most important English provincial towns, and was of considerable political and economic significance. The book draws heavily on the wealth of recently discovered archaeological material, especially in the Thames Valley, and incorporates the latest work on place-names, charter boundaries, tribal groupings and ecclesiastical organization. A short final chapter describes the Norman impact on the city and county.
Anglo-Saxon Oxfordshire
Author: John Blair
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In the eleventh century Oxford was one of the most important English provincial towns, and was of considerable political and economic significance. The book draws heavily on the wealth of recently discovered archaeological material, especially in the Thames Valley, and incorporates the latest work on place-names, charter boundaries, tribal groupings and ecclesiastical organization. A short final chapter describes the Norman impact on the city and county.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In the eleventh century Oxford was one of the most important English provincial towns, and was of considerable political and economic significance. The book draws heavily on the wealth of recently discovered archaeological material, especially in the Thames Valley, and incorporates the latest work on place-names, charter boundaries, tribal groupings and ecclesiastical organization. A short final chapter describes the Norman impact on the city and county.
The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology
Author: Helena Hamerow
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0199212147
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
Book Description
Written by a team of experts and presenting the results of the most up-to-date research, The Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology will both stimulate and support further investigation into a society poised at the interface between prehistory and history.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0199212147
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
Book Description
Written by a team of experts and presenting the results of the most up-to-date research, The Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology will both stimulate and support further investigation into a society poised at the interface between prehistory and history.
The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introduction
Author: John Blair
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019157838X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Blair's Very Short Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Age covers the emergence of the earliest English settlements to the Norman victory in 1066. This book is a brief introduction to the political, social, religious, and cultural history of Anglo-Saxon England. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019157838X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Blair's Very Short Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Age covers the emergence of the earliest English settlements to the Norman victory in 1066. This book is a brief introduction to the political, social, religious, and cultural history of Anglo-Saxon England. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Building Anglo-Saxon England
Author: John Blair
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400889901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400889901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
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.
Early Medieval Britain
Author: Pam J. Crabtree
Publisher:
ISBN: 0521885949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Traces the development of towns in Britain from late Roman times to the end of the Anglo-Saxon period using archaeological data.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0521885949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Traces the development of towns in Britain from late Roman times to the end of the Anglo-Saxon period using archaeological data.
Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination
Author: David Clark
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843842513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Anglo-Saxon world continues to be a source of fascination in modern culture. Its manifestations in a variety of media are here examined.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843842513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Anglo-Saxon world continues to be a source of fascination in modern culture. Its manifestations in a variety of media are here examined.
Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England
Author: Sally Crawford
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
An introduction to the daily life of men, women and children living in England from the end of Roman Britain in the 5th century AD to the Norman Conquest, based on documentary and archaeological evidence.
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
An introduction to the daily life of men, women and children living in England from the end of Roman Britain in the 5th century AD to the Norman Conquest, based on documentary and archaeological evidence.
The Shaping of the English Landscape: An Atlas of Archaeology from the Bronze Age to Domesday Book
Author: Chris Green
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803270616
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
An atlas of English archaeology covering the period from the middle Bronze Age (c. 1500 BC) to Domesday Book (AD 1086), encompassing the Bronze and Iron Ages, the Roman period, and the early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) age.
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803270616
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
An atlas of English archaeology covering the period from the middle Bronze Age (c. 1500 BC) to Domesday Book (AD 1086), encompassing the Bronze and Iron Ages, the Roman period, and the early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) age.
Anglo-Saxon Settlement and Landscape
Author: Trevor Rowley
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Two Oxfordshire Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries
Author: Angela Boyle
Publisher: Oxford Univ School of Archaeology
ISBN: 9780947816865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Report and analysis of the graves, artefacts and skeletal remains at these two sites.
Publisher: Oxford Univ School of Archaeology
ISBN: 9780947816865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Report and analysis of the graves, artefacts and skeletal remains at these two sites.