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The book has much to recommend it as a convenient summary of much of the evidence and a detailed description of how land-use and water management worked in the fens * Medieval Archaeology * This important and thoroughly researched book makes a very good case for long-term continuity in the specialised management needed for the Fenland. * British Archaeology * A comparatively slim book, but in any roll call of regional histories, also comparatively significant. * Current Archaeology * ...offers a fresh perspective on a relatively poorly defined period, usefully questioning established views, long taken for granted, and generating a new set of carefully argued hypotheses that should focus attention for a new generation of researchers. * Medieval Settlement Research Group * ...full of provoking ideas. * Landscape History *

This important and thoroughly researched book makes a very good case for long-term continuity in the specialised management needed for the Fenland. * British Archaeology * A comparatively slim book, but in any roll call of regional histories, also comparatively significant. * Current Archaeology * ...offers a fresh perspective on a relatively poorly defined period, usefully questioning established views, long taken for granted, and generating a new set of carefully argued hypotheses that should focus attention for a new generation of researchers. * Medieval Settlement Research Group * ...full of provoking ideas. * Landscape History *

This important and thoroughly researched book makes a very good case for long-term continuity in the specialised management needed for the Fenland. -- David Bird * British Archaeology * A comparatively slim book, but in any roll call of regional histories, also comparatively significant. -- Paul Spoerry * Current Archaeology * ...offers a fresh perspective on a relatively poorly defined period, usefully questioning established views, long taken for granted, and generating a new set of carefully argued hypotheses that should focus attention for a new generation of researchers. -- Bob Silvester * Medieval Settlement Research Group * ...full of provoking ideas. -- Peter Herring * Landscape History *

...full of provoking ideas. * Landscape History * This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the East Anglian Fenland in the early medieval period... This is probably one of the most important books to appear in recent years on the East Anglian Fenland, but the arguments presented here may also hold relevance to an understanding of the cultural background of a much wider area. * The Antiquaries Journal * This important and thoroughly researched book makes a very good case for long-term continuity in the specialised management needed for the Fenland. * British Archaeology * A comparatively slim book, but in any roll call of regional histories, also comparatively significant. * Current Archaeology * Ultimately, Susan Oosthuizen is to be congratulated on producing a thought-provoking volume which should be considered essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the settlement and exploitation of the East Anglian landscape during the Anglo-Saxon period. * Norfolk Archaeology * ...it should encourage early medieval historians interested in the process of forming and preserving identity to pay attention to customs which tacitly state: 'we are the people who have rights to pasture here'. * Early Medieval Europe * ...a well researched and nicely presented book, which raises some interesting hypotheses about landscape continuities in this enigmatic region froma longue duree perspective. * Archaeological Journal * ...offers a fresh perspective on a relatively poorly defined period, usefully questioning established views, long taken for granted, and generating a new set of carefully argued hypotheses that should focus attention for a new generation of researchers. * Medieval Settlement Research Group * The book has much to recommend it as a convenient summary of much of the evidence and a detailed description of how land-use and water management worked in the fens. * Medieval Archaeology *

...offers a fresh perspective on a relatively poorly defined period, usefully questioning established views, long taken for granted, and generating a new set of carefully argued hypotheses that should focus attention for a new generation of researchers. -- Bob Silvester * Medieval Settlement Research Group *

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Susan Oosthuizen is Reader in Medieval Archaeology in the Institute of Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge. She has a special interest in the origins and development of Anglo-Saxon and medieval pastures, fields and settlement. She is the author of several books and numerous papers on landscape history, including rights of common and the East Anglian fenland.

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