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Building Anglo-Saxon England
John Blair
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
A radical rethinking of the Anglo-Saxon world that draws on the latest archaeological discoveries
This beautifully illustrated book draws on the latest archaeological discoveries to present a radical reappraisal of the Anglo-Saxon built environment and its inhabitants. John Blair, one of the world's leading experts on this transformative era in England's early history, explains the origins of towns, manor houses, and castles in a completely new way, and sheds new light on the important functions of buildings and settlements in shaping people's lives during the age of the Venerable Bede and King Alfred.
Building Anglo-Saxon England demonstrates how hundreds of recent excavations enable us to grasp for the first time how regionally diverse the built environment of the Anglo-Saxons truly was. Blair identifies a zone of eastern England with access to the North Sea whose economy, prosperity, and timber buildings had more in common with the Low Countries and Scandinavia than the rest of England. The origins of villages and their field systems emerge with a new clarity, as does the royal administrative organization of the kingdom of Mercia, which dominated central England for two centuries.
Featuring a wealth of color illustrations throughout, Building Anglo-Saxon England explores how the natural landscape was modified to accommodate human activity, and how many settlements--secular and religious—were laid out with geometrical precision by specialist surveyors. The book also shows how the Anglo-Saxon love of elegant and intricate decoration is reflected in the construction of the living environment, which in some ways was more sophisticated than it would become after the Norman Conquest.
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Anglo-Saxon charters, Proportion (architecture), Great hall, Manor house, Heorot, Leicestershire, Sutton Hoo, Warwickshire, Agriculture, Structuring, Churchyard, Mercia, Gloucestershire, East Midlands, East of England, Household, Kingdom of Northumbria, Iron Age, Laity, Quantity, Roman Fort, Surveying, Vale of Pickering, Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Burial, Rural settlement, East Anglia, Yeavering, Stotfold, Masonry, Anglo-Scandinavian, Fortification, Tenement, Archaeology, Neolithic, Sherd, Technology, Tutbury, West Heslerton, Frontage, Arable land, Bookland (law), Hinterland, Northamptonshire, Infrastructure, Burh, Narrative, Residence, Cemetery, Centrality, Domesday Book, East Kent, Peasant, Wealth, Thegn, Oxfordshire, The Other Hand, Lyminge, Pottery, Bronze Age, Dwelling, Hillfort, Royal vill, Fosse Way, Material culture, Anglo-Saxons, Wharram Percy, Cambridgeshire, Burghal Hidage, Wiltshire