Presents a theoretically informed study of interactions between indigenous people of Mediterranean France and Etruscan, Greek, and Roman colonists during the first millennium BC. This book shows how selective consumption linked native societies and colonists and created transformative relationships for each.
A companion to "Luminous Debris", this title offers readings of late Roman and early Christian ruins in the author's adopted region of Provence, sifting through iconographic, architectural, and sacramental vestiges to shed light on nothing less than the existential itself.
Towns have been a place of evolution and development throughout British history. Using archaeological, topographical and documentary material, this book provides an insight into the ideas about the developments of towns in England in the first half millennium to AD 1140.
The excavations at South Witham in Lincolnshire produced the most complete archaeological plan of the preceptory of the Military Orders so far seen in Britain. This monograph presents the final publication of results, beginning with separate chapters dedicated to the three main phases of occupation.
Arthur: mythical hero, legendary king. But was he, as the legends claimed, an actual Dark-Age Briton? From Glastonbury and Tintagel to the supposed sites of Arthur's Camelot and his famous battles, this book investigates how archaeologists have interpreted the evidence.
Based on the study of dress evidence from early medieval cemeteries, this is an archaeology study of Anglo-Saxon textiles and decoration. It focuses on both clothing and jewellery and seeks to establish an evidence-based re-evaluation of the cultural and social significance of dress in Anglo-Saxon England.
Focuses on the archaeological, anthropological and historical models of gift and commodity exchange, pertinent to Europe during the seventh to ninth centuries, and shows how these debates shed new light on the evolution of the Early Medieval political economies.
Presents a series of studies offering a wide range of approaches to the topic of ancient fishing technology, based on detailed studies of the available literary, archaeological, pictorial and ichthyological evidence as well as on diachronic comparisons with fishing techniques of the Early Medieval and Modern periods.
The objects unearthed in 1939 from an Anglo-Saxon ship-burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, rank among the most splendid treasures in the collection of the British Museum. The Sutton Hoo ship-burial was one of the most exciting discoveries ever made in British archaeology. This title explores the circumstances of its burial, discovery and excavation.
Introduces students of Anglo-Saxon culture to selected aspects of the realities of Anglo-Saxon life through reference to artefacts and textual sources. It investigates everyday practices and processes such as the exploitation of animals for clothing, meat, and parchment; ships for travel, trade and transport; and textiles for dress and furnishing.
The royal centre of Forteviot in Strathearn, Perthshire is one of the most famous early medieval sites in Scotland. It has traditionally been regarded as a royal capital, first of the powerful Pictish kingdom of Fortriu and then of the early Scots. This study of this famous site throws light on Pictish kingship and the Church.
Presents a survey of the Isle of Man in the period from the early tenth century to the middle of the eleventh century. This book includes archaeological material - pagan grave-goods, silver-treasures, headland fortifications, farm-sites, inscribed and carved Christian memorial stones. It tells of the gradual change from paganism to Christianity.
Presents a survey of the Isle of Man in the period from the early tenth century to the middle of the eleventh century. This book includes archaeological material - pagan grave-goods, silver-treasures, headland fortifications, farm-sites, inscribed and carved Christian memorial stones. It tells of the gradual change from paganism to Christianity.
Starting with the basic concept of a 'road' in medieval times, and discussing the increasing need to travel, this book explores the evidence from documents and maps that provide clues as to where the roads of medieval Britain led, connecting the study of individual roads together to paint an image of the broader road network.
Focusing on the differences and similarities between the renowned 'Alpais' Limoges ciborium, dated toC 1200, in the Musee du Louvre, and examples in the British Museum, the National Museums of Scotland, together with two electrotype copies of the 'Alpais' ciborium in the Victoria and Albert Museum, this title examines the group of ciboria.
Thorps - in some areas throps - are familiar elements in much of the named landscape of England. In this study a compelling connection is revealed between the creation of these place-names and fundamental changes taking place in the English landscape between AD 850 and 1250.
In the later middle ages the Crown, manorial lords and Dartmoor farmers provided a service of keeping the cattle, gaining substantial revenues from the cattle owners who were pleased to pay for the care and feed of their animals. This book describes the social organisation and farming practices associated with this annual transfer of livestock.
Features a collection of essays that are intended as a demonstration of the ways in which a theoretically informed archaeology enhances our understanding of the early middle ages. This work addresses some of the key issues in contemporary archaeology - identity, the appropriation/destruction of the past, gift exchange, and object biographies.
In the later middle ages the Crown, manorial lords and Dartmoor farmers provided a service of keeping the cattle, gaining substantial revenues from the cattle owners who were pleased to pay for the care and feed of their animals. This book describes the social organisation and farming practices associated with this annual transfer of livestock.
Uses archaeological evidence to re-read the history of the early Middle Ages. This book shows how archaeology makes us appreciate the changing rhythms of early medieval Europe, especially in terms of the contacts made by traders, pilgrims and travellers. The studies re-examine the archaeology of the monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno (Italy).
This book will summarise the main findings and new suggestions about the development of the City, its ups and downs through the Black Death and the Dissolution of the Monasteries; its place in Europe as a capital city with great architecture and relations with many other parts of Europe, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean.
Vikings began raiding islands and monasteries on the Atlantic fringes of Europe in the 790s. The Irish Sea rapidly became one of their most productive hunting-grounds. Viking paganism, demonstrated by spectacular burials, was gradually eclipsed by Christianity. This book looks afresh at the story of this supremely opportunistic people.
To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. This title considers the social and cultural context for these acts, asking how the relics were perceived and why the thefts met with the approval of medieval Christians.
Intends to enable readers to track the development of different cultures, and of regional characteristics, throughout the full extent of medieval Catholic Europe. Revealing shared contexts and technological developments, this work also provides the opportunity for demonstrating the differences that were inevitably present across the Continent.
How did the pagan world work? Gods and Worshippers looks at the traditional religions of the Germanic world, with an emphasis on the religious practice and its place in the lives of pre-Christian peoples of the Germanic world, in particular England and Scandinavia.
Romanesque is the style name given to the art and architecture of Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries. This work subjects 'the Romanesque' to a theoretically-informed, archaeological inquiry. It deconstructs the constructs of 'Romanesque' and 'Europe', and reveals alternative strategies for interpreting Romanesque's constituent material.
Christianity arrived in Wales with the Romans and spread rapidly in the early medieval period. This book explores the archaeology of the early Church in Wales from the arrival of Christianity in the Roman period until the end of the independent Welsh kingdoms in the late thirteenth century.
Discovered in 2007 and acquired by the British Museum and York Museums Trust, the Vale of York hoard was buried in the late 920s in the reign of the West Saxon king Athelstan, in what is now North Yorkshire. This book describes the individual items in the Vale of York treasure and explores the historical context of the burial of this hoard.
Al-Andalus, the Iberian Islamic civilization centred on Cordoba in the tenth and eleventh centuries, has been a 'lost' civilization in several respects. This book takes a comparative civilizations approach that puts the formation of Al-Andalus in context with corresponding developments elsewhere in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.