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Throughout history rivers have been a hub for human settlement and have long been a key part of local livelihoods, history and culture, as well as still playing a present-day role in providing services and leisure to people who live around them. It is no coincidence that all four of the earliest human civilisations were formed on great rivers: the Nile, Euphrates, Indus and Yellow rivers all saw great human aggregation along them. The most ancient and vital architectural structures linked to the use of rivers are bridges. There are a wide range of medieval bridge structures, some very simple in their construction, to amazing triumphs of design and engineering comparable with the great churches of the period. They stand today as proof of the great importance of transport networks in the Middle Ages and of the size and sophistication of the medieval economy. These bridges were built in some of the most difficult places, across broad flood plains, deep tidal waters, and steep upland valleys, and they withstood all but the most catastrophic floods. Yet their beauty, from simplistic to ornate, remains for us to appreciate. Medieval Bridges of Southern England has been organised geographically into tours, and covers the governmental regions of Southwest England, London, and Southeast England. There are exactly 100 bridges included. There is an introduction and background information about the medieval period of English history at the beginning and there are beautiful full colour photographs throughout the book. AUTHOR: Marshall G. Hall is a retired UK university professor of Socio-anthropology who has held a lifelong interest in travel, architecture, linguistics and adventure. Having written for academia for years, today Marshall writes, teaches the occasional university class as a guest lecturer and does public speaking. He has just finished a local interest book called Historic Bridges of Buckinghamshire.

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A seminal work of original and informative scholarship that is impressively enhanced throughout with full color photography... a unique, extraordinary, and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, community, college, and university library Medieval History collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. It should be noted for students, academia, and non-specialist general readers... -- Midwest Book Review

"""A seminal work of original and informative scholarship that is impressively enhanced throughout with full color photography... a unique, extraordinary, and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, community, college, and university library Medieval History collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. It should be noted for students, academia, and non-specialist general readers...""-- ""Midwest Book Review"""

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Marshall G. Hall is a retired UK university professor of Socio-anthropology who has held a lifelong interest in travel, architecture, linguistics, and adventure. Having written for academia for years, today Marshall writes, teaches the occasional university class as a guest lecturer, and does public speaking. In 2021, Marshall published Historic Bridges of Buckinghamshire for Windgather Press, and in 2022, Medieval Bridges of Southern England: 100 Bridges, 1000 Years was published, which was the first of a three-volume series on medieval bridges of England.

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