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024 7 _a10.1515/9781400889907
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400889907
035 _a(DE-B1597)493728
035 _a(OCoLC)1021234899
040 _aDE-B1597
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072 7 _aHIS015000
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082 0 4 _a942.01/7
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBlair, John
_eautore
245 1 0 _aBuilding Anglo-Saxon England /
_cJohn Blair.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a1 online resource (496 p.) :
_b109 color + 43 b/w illus.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIllustrations --
_tPreface and Acknowledgments --
_tSource Citation Conventions --
_tAbbreviations --
_tPART I. Contexts --
_t1. Exploring Anglo- Saxon Landscapes --
_t2. Defining Anglo- Saxon Landscapes --
_t3. Landscapes of the Mind --
_tPART II. The First Transformation, circa 600-700 --
_t4. Landscapes of Power and Wealth --
_t5. The Construction of Settlement --
_tPART III. Consolidation, circa 700-920 --
_t6. Landscape Organisation and Economy in the Mercian Age --
_t7. Defence, Industry, and Commerce --
_t8. Rural Settlement and the 'Making of the English Village' --
_tPART IV. The Second Transformation, 920-1000 --
_t9. Growth and Reconstruction --
_t10. Free Farmers and Emergent Lords --
_tPART V. Beyond Anglo- Saxon Landscapes --
_t11. The Eleventh Century --
_t12. Conclusion --
_tBibliography --
_tIllustration Sources and Credits --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aA radical rethinking of the Anglo-Saxon world that draws on the latest archaeological discoveriesThis 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021)
650 0 _aAnglo-Saxons.
650 0 _aLand settlement
_zEngland
_xHistory
_yTo 1500.
650 0 _aLandscape archaeology
_zEngland.
650 0 _aLandscapes
_zEngland
_xHistory
_yTo 1500.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781400889907?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400889907
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