Description
Book SynopsisExamines views on the emerging settlement patterns of early medieval Britain and their relation to land use, drawing on both archaeological and documentary sources. This book takes the study from the later Romano-British into the post-Roman period.
Trade Review... a fascinating insight for historical geographers, historians and archaeologists. * The Geographical Journal, Vol. 164 (1) *
A good introduction to current debates, research preoccupations and methodological approaches, as well as giving the specialist much food for thought. * Landscape History *
Table of Contents
- Contents
- Changing constraints on the landscape, AD 400-600, Simon Esmonde Cleary
- Bioshprics, monasteries and the landscape, c.600-1066, Christopher Holdsworth
- Changes in the Cornish countryside AD 400-1100, Peter Rose and Ann Preston-Jones
- Aspects of rural settlement in northern Britain, Colleen E. Batey
- The mid-late Anglo-Saxon period - settlement and land use, Della Hooke
- Settlement, land use and estate patterns on the Failand ridge, north Somerset - a preliminary discussion, C.J. Bond.
