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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen Rippon (Professor of Landscape Archaeology, Professor of Landscape Archaeology, University of Exeter)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 25.00cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9780198759379ISBN 10: 0198759371 Pages: 464 Publication Date: 19 April 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Introduction: The Evolution of Territorial Identities in the English Landscape 2: Iron Age Landscape, Society and Regionality: The Material Culture 3: Iron Age Landscape and Society: The Settlement Patterns 4: The Romano-British Urban and Religious Landscape 5: The Romano-British Rural Landscape of the Land-Owning Elite 6: Romano-British Material Culture 7: Kingdoms and Regiones: The Documentary Evidence 8: Anglo-Saxon Colonization 9: Regional Identities: Angles and Saxons? 10: The Native British 11: Regionality Under The New Order: The Seventh to Tenth Centuries 12: The Boundaries of Early Medieval Kingship 13: ConclusionsReviewsUnderlying the work is a huge amount of data, and Stephen has done extraordinarly well to make sense of it ... In short, the book is a triumph. * Edward Biddulph, Current Archaeology * Underlying the work is a huge amount of data, and Stephen has done extraordinarly well to make sense of it ... In short, the book is a triumph. * Edward Biddulph, Current Archaeology * Stephen Rippon's recent book is a research feat of some significance. Its strength lies in that it does not adopt the constricted view of many earlier studies set within the narrow scope of particular disciplines or time periods, perpetuating beliefs that went unquestioned for many years and can still be met today in less academic circles. The view that early British cultural traditions decayed in the wake of the Anglo-Saxon invasions, or the opposite idea that later boundaries such as the early medieval diocesan boundaries necessarily reflected those of earlier territorial groupings, are put under close scrutiny. * Della Hooke, Landscape History * Underlying the work is a huge amount of data, and Stephen has done extraordinarly well to make sense of it ... In short, the book is a triumph. * Edward Biddulph, Current Archaeology * Stephen Rippon's recent book is a research feat of some significance. Its strength lies in that it does not adopt the constricted view of many earlier studies set within the narrow scope of particular disciplines or time periods, perpetuating beliefs that went unquestioned for many years and can still be met today in less academic circles. The view that early British cultural traditions decayed in the wake of the Anglo-Saxon invasions, or the opposite idea that later boundaries such as the early medieval diocesan boundaries necessarily reflected those of earlier territorial groupings, are put under close scrutiny. * Della Hooke, Landscape History * The ambition of this important study is to trace the degree of continuity between Iron-Age tribal territories, Roman civitates and early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms ... It is now up to scholars of other regions to build upon this excellent work. * Michael Shapland, Medieval Archaeology * [A]mbitious undertaking * CHOICE * Author InformationStephen Rippon is Professor of Landscape Archaeology at the University of Exeter with strongly interdisciplinary research interests in the landscapes of Roman and medieval Britain, regional variation in landscape character, and using the techniques of historic landscape analysis to explore how the countryside of today has come into being. He is a recent Dean of Graduate Research at the University of Exeter, and past president of the Medieval Settlement Research Group and Treasurer of the Society for Medieval Archaeology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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