{"product_id":"formative-britain-9780415524759","title":"Formative Britain","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFormative Britain\u003c\/em\u003e presents an account of the peoples occupying the island of Britain between 400 and 1100 AD, whose ideas continue to set the political agenda today. Forty years of new archaeological research has laid bare a hive of diverse and disputatious communities of Picts, Scots, Welsh, Cumbrian and Cornish Britons, Northumbrians, Angles and Saxons, who expressed their views of this world and the next in a thousand sites and monuments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis highly illustrated volume is the first book that attempts to describe the experience of all levels of society over the whole island using archaeology alone. The story is drawn from the clothes, faces and biology of men and women, the images that survive in their poetry, the places they lived, the work they did, the ingenious celebrations of their graves and burial grounds, their decorated stone monuments and their diverse messages. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis ground-breaking account is aimed at students and archaeological researchers at all levels in the academic and commercial sectors. It will also inform relevant stakeholders and general readers alike of how the islands of Britain developed in the early medieval period. Many of the ideas forged in Britainâs formative years underpin those of today as the UK seeks to find a consensus programme for its future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"…it is a pleasure to enjoy an extended synthesis produced by a deep thinker who has done so much to frame the ways in which students (writ large) of the early medieval period think about their material.\" – Chris Fowler, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAntiquity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The range of location and example is extraordinary, with excellent referencing and a comprehensive bibliography. As a teaching aid, it should be welcomed; as a student’s introduction to the fast-changing perceptions and understandings of this well-named ‘formative’ period in Britain’s history, it will be a valued primer…Formative Britain is a great achievement.\" – Brian Ayers, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of the Historical Association\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a magnificent book that truly does justice to the study of post-Roman Britain. It celebrates the enormous wealth of information at the archaeologist’s (and historian’s) disposal beyond those written texts which have long determined the narrative of this epoch…There is so much to admire in Carver’s thesis. This is a vivid narrative which has largely evaded the shadow of the canon\".\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e–\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eRichard Hodges,\u003cstrong\u003e Medieval Archaeology\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePicture credits\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Inheritance: landscapes and predecessors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Looking for personhood: physique and adornment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Working from home: settlement and economies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Addressing eternity: cemeteries as ritual places\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Monumentality: sculpture, churches and illuminated books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6: Materiality of words: myths and records\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7 Narratives – reflections - legacies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018160734551,"sku":"9780415524759","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415524759.jpg?v=1750775846","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/formative-britain-9780415524759","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}