UID:
almafu_9959233028602883
Format:
1 online resource (384 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-78925-037-4
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1-78925-035-8
Content:
In this volume, deriving from two conferences held in Rome and Leicester in 2016, nineteen leading European archaeologists discuss and interpret the complex evolution of landscapes - both urban and rural - across Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (c. AD 300-700). The geographical coverage extends from Italy to the Mediterranean West through to the Rhine frontier and onto Hadrian's Wall. Core are questions of impacts due to the socio-political, religious, military and economic transformations affecting provinces, territories and kingdoms across these often turbulent centuries: how did townscapes change and at what rate? What were the fates of villas? When do post-classical landscapes emerge and in what form? To what degree did Europe become an insecure, defended landscape? In what ways did people - cityfolk, farmers, nobility, churchmen, merchants - adapt? Do the elite remain visible and how prominent is the Church? Where and how do we see culture change through the arrival of new groups or new ideas? Do burials form a clear guide to the changing world? And underlying much of the discussion is a consideration of the nature and quality of our source material.
Note:
Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Changing Data and Changing Interpretations in the Study of Transformations of Late Antique Space and Society: Neil Christie -- Chapter 1. Transformation in the Cities of Northern Italy between the Fifth and Seventh Centuries AD. Forms, Functions and Societies: Gian Pietro Brogiolo -- Chapter 2. Rome. An Analysis of Changes in Topography and Population between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Roberto Meneghini -- Chapter 3. The Transformation of Society in Late Antique Hispania (AD 300-700): Javier Arce -- Chapter 4. Per omnium villas vicosque cunctos: Rural Landscapes in Late Antique Southern Italy: Roberto Goffredo and Giuliano Volpe -- Chapter 5. The Countryside of Southern Gaul from the Fourth to Seventh Centuries AD. Settlement, Landscape and Society: Claude Raynaud -- Chapter 6. Villas, Visigoths and Evangelisation: Rural Archaeology in Late Antique Novempopulana:Simon Esmonde Cleary -- Chapter 7. Rural Settlements in the Territory of Salamanca (Spain) between the Late Roman Period and the Early Middle Ages: Testing a Model -- Chapter 8. Transformation in the Avon Valley from the Late Fourth to Seventh Centuries AD: A Case Study from the West Midlands, England: Abigail E. I. Tompkins -- Chapter 9. Changing Landscapes? Land, People and Environment in England, AD 350-600: Stephen Rippon -- Chapter 10. Diversity in Unity: Exploring Survival, Transition and Ethnogenesis in Late Antique Western Britain: Roger White -- Chapter 11. Landscape, Economy and Society in Late and Post-Roman Wales: Andy Seaman -- Chapter 12. Military Might for a Depopulated Region? Interpreting the Archaeology of the Lower Rhine Area in the Late Roman Period: Stijn Heeren.
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Chapter 13. Landscapes of the Limitanei at the North-Western Edge of Empire: Rob Collins -- Chapter 14. People and Landscapes in Northern Italy: Interrogating the Burial Archaeology of the Early Middle Ages: Alexandra Chavarría Arnau -- Chapter 15. Rural and Urban Contexts in North-Eastern Spain: Examining and Interpreting Transformations across the Fifth-Seventh Centuries AD: Pilar Diarte-Blasco -- Chapter 16. Spatial Inequality and the Formation of an Early Medieval Landscape in the Centre of the Iberian Peninsula: Lauro Olmo-Enciso -- Chapter 17. Discontinuities, Threads of Continuity, Academic Inertia and All That: Debating the Late Antique and Early Medieval Archaeologies of Inner Iberia: Alfonso Vigil-Escalera Guirado.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78925-034-X
Language:
English
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