Author: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Author: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Accession of Henry II in England
Author: Emilie AmtPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780851153483
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Detailed examination of the steps by which Henry II negotiated peace and established the authority of his government.
Reading Between the Lines
Author: Jessica G. PurdyPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004363718
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This book provides an overview of the establishment and use of parish libraries in early modern England and includes a thematic analysis of surviving marginalia and readers' marks. This book is the first direct and detailed analysis of parish libraries in early modern England and uses a case-study approach to the examination of foundation practices, physical and intellectual accessibility, the nature of the collections, and the ways in which people used these libraries and read their books.
A Country Merchant, 1495-1520
Author: Christopher DyerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199214247
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
A major contribution to the economic and social history of a mysterious period, the years around 1500, using new evidence and methods of analysis. Presents a fresh and engaging view of history by highlighting an individual, John Heritage.
Transactions
Author: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Guide to the Historical Publications of the Societies of England and Wales
Author: Urban Growth and the Medieval Church
Author: Nigel BakerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135187652X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
It has long been recognised that the Church played a major role in the development of towns and cities from the earliest times, a fact attested to by the prominence and number of ecclesiastical buildings that still dominate many urban areas. Yet despite this physical evidence, and the work of archaeologists and historians, many important aspects of the early stages of urbanization in England are still poorly understood. Not least, there are many unanswered questions concerning the processes by which the larger towns emerged as planned settlements during the pre-Conquest centuries. Whilst the commitment of the Wessex kings is recognized, questions remain concerning the participation of the Church in this process. Likewise, our understanding of the Church's influence in the later development of towns is not yet fully developed. Many intriguing questions remain concerning such issues as the founding of parish churches and their boundaries, and the extent to which the Church, as a major landowner, helped shape the evolving identity of towns and their suburbs. It is questions such as these that this volume sets out to answer. Employing a wealth of historical and archaeological evidence, two key towns - Gloucester and Worcester - are closely examined in order to build up a picture of their respective developments throughout the medieval period. Through this multi-disciplinary and comparative approach, a picture begins to emerge the Church's role in helping to shape not only the spiritual, but also the social, economic and cultural development of the urban environment.
The First Stones
Author: William BritnellPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789257409
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The First Stones brings together the results of recent research on the Neolithic long cairns lying in the shadow of the Black Mountains in south-east Wales, focusing upon Penywyrlod and Gwernvale, the two best known tombs within the group, previously excavated in the 1970s. Important results lie in both new site detail and reassessment of the wider context. Small-scale excavation, geophysical survey and geological assessment at Penywyrlod – the largest of the Welsh long cairns – gave further information about the distinctive external and internal architecture of the monument. In turn, this opened the opportunity to reassess the pre-monument sequence at Gwernvale, with re-examination of both Mesolithic and Neolithic occupations, including a timber structure and midden, lithic and pottery assemblages, and cereal remains. The frame for wider reassessment is given by fresh chronological modeling both of the monuments themselves, suggesting a sequence from Penywyrlod and Pipton to Ty Isaf and Gwernvale, probably spanning the 38th to the 36th or 35th centuries cal BC, and of early Neolithic activity in south Wales and the Marches, probably beginning in the 39th century cal BC. A detailed study of the major assemblages of human remains from the Black Mountains tombs includes evidence for diet, trauma and lifestyles of the populations represented. Recent isotope analysis of human remains from the tombs is also reviewed, implying social mobility and migration within local populations during the early Neolithic. The First Stones makes a significant contribution to the study of tomb building, treatment of the dead, place making, the relationship of monuments to landscape, local and regional identities, connections and affiliations across southern Britain and the adjacent continent, and Neolithization in western Britain. Viewed within the context of tombs within the Cotswold-Severn tradition as a whole, it leads to an appreciation of the local and regional distinctiveness of architecture and mortuary practice exhibited by the tombs in this area of south-east Wales, emerging as part of the intake of a significant inland area in the early centuries of the Neolithic.
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research
Author: University of London. Institute of Historical ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Contains reports on archives and on the problems and methods of historical research; summaries of unpublished historical theses produced at the institute; addenda and corrigenda to the Dictionary of national biography, the New English dictionary, and other standard collections; the migrations of historical manuscripts; etc., etc.
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