{"product_id":"archaeological-approaches-to-medieval-europe-studies-in-medieval-and-early-modern-culture-9780918720535","title":"Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Europe","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn bringing together these papers, \u003ci\u003eArchaeological Approaches to Medieval Europe\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the need for active participation of different disciplines in formulating questions about and interpretations of material culture in the Middle Ages. It celebrates the coming of age of historical archaeology, of which medieval archaeology is a subdiscipline. The papers collected are striking for their diversity of approaches and subject matter. They reflect the spirit of an open area excavation where specialists from many disciplines with diverging methodologies meet and work side by side. No paper is specifically devoted to an excavation report, although the majority of contributors made use of data from such reports. The collection is intended primarily as a sampler, but a thematic unity emerges around the potential of archaeological approaches to contribute to a political ecology of the medieval period. The volume is an indispensable offering for archaeologists and historians of the M\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction by Kathleen Biddick\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e PART I: Organizing Space and Managing Resources\u003cbr\u003e The Multiple Estate: A Model for Tracing the Interrelationships of Society, Economy, and Habitat by Glanville R. J. Jones\u003cbr\u003e Fieldwork and Documentary Evidence for the Layout and Organization of Early Medieval Estates in the English Midlands by David Hall\u003cbr\u003e The Forest: Woodland and Wood-Pasture in Medieval England by Oliver Rackham\u003cbr\u003e PART II: Forming and Transforming Agricultural Systems in Temperate Europe\u003cbr\u003e Field Edge, Forest Edge: Early Medieval Social Change and Resource Allocation by Kathleen Biddick \u003cbr\u003e Some Ecological Dimensions of Medieval Field Systems by H. S. A. Fox \u003cbr\u003e Environmental, Ecological, and Agricultural Systems: Approaches to Simulation Modeling Applications for Medieval Temperate Europe by William S. Cooter \u003cbr\u003e Early Medieval Agriculture in Coastal Holland: The Evidence from Archaeology and Ecology by William H. TeBrake \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e PART III: Reconstructing Material Worlds from Artifacts \u003cbr\u003e North Sea Trade Before the Vikings by Richard Hodges \u003cbr\u003e Morphological Analysis of Medieval Fine Pottery: Provenance and Trade Patterns in the Mediterranean World by Janet E. Buerger \u003cbr\u003e The Archaeozoology of the Anglo-Saxon Site at West Stow, Suffolk by Pamela Crabtree\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e PART IV: Time-Depth and Settlement: Overview and Case Studies A Diachronic Model for Settlement and Land Use in Southern Burgundy by Carole L. Crumley\u003cbr\u003e An Experimental Model for Early Medieval Settlement in Southwestern Burgundy by Walter E. Berry\u003cbr\u003e Castle and Countryside: Capalbiaccio and the Changing Settlement History of the Ager Cosanus by Stephen L. Dyson\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e PART V: Context and Concerns\u003cbr\u003e Current Research\u003cbr\u003e Concerns in Medieval Archaeology in West Germany by Walter Janssen\u003cbr\u003e Contributors","brand":"Medieval Institute Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528556585303,"sku":"9780918720535","price":23.33,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780918720535.jpg?v=1731872097","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/archaeological-approaches-to-medieval-europe-studies-in-medieval-and-early-modern-culture-9780918720535","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}