Format:
1 online resource (472 pages)
ISBN:
9780191019517
Content:
The Fields of Britannia is the first book to explore how far the countryside of Roman Britain has survived in use through to the present day, shaping the character of our modern countryside.
Content:
Cover -- The Fields of Britannia: Continuity and Change in the Late Roman and Early Medieval Landscape -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter1 -- Chapter2 -- Chapter3 -- Chapter4 -- Chapter5 -- Chapter6 -- Chapter7 -- Chapter8 -- Chapter9 -- Chapter10 -- Chapter11 -- Chapter12 -- List of Tables -- List of Appendices -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Period and Other Terminology -- Presentational Conventions -- 1: Fields of Britannia -- Britain´s Green and Pleasant Land -- Perspectives on an Age of Transition -- The End of Roman Britain -- A `Late Antique´ Landscape? Native Britons and Anglo-Saxons in Lowland Britain -- The Fields of Britannia -- 2: A Regional Approach to Studying Landscape -- Landscape Character in Roman Britain -- Landscape Character in the Early Medieval Period -- The Earliest Medieval Period (Fifth to Mid-Seventh Centuries) -- The `Long Eighth Century´ (Late Seventh to Mid-Ninth Century) -- The Mid-Ninth to the Mid-Eleventh Centuries -- Mapping the Regions and Pays of First-Millenium ad Britain -- Regions -- Pays -- The Fields of Britannia Regions of Late Roman and Early Medieval Britain -- South East England -- The Central Zone -- East Anglia -- The South West -- Western Lowlands -- North East Lowlands -- Northern Uplands -- Lowland Wales -- Upland Wales -- 3: A Landscape Approach to the Roman-Medieval Transition -- Reconstructing Patterns of Land-Use -- Palaeoenvironmental Sequences -- Palaeoeconomic Data -- Methodological Considerations -- Animal Husbandry -- Cereal Cultivation -- Discussion -- The Fieldscape of Roman Britain -- Buried and Relict Landscapes -- Romano-British Field Systems Preserved Within the Historic Landscape of Today -- The Fieldscape of Early Medieval Britain -- The Earliest Medieval Period (the `Early and Middle Saxon Period´).
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199645824
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780199645824
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=2147274
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