Landscapes of Change

Rural Evolutions in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Herausgeber: Christie, Neil

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Landscapes of Change leading scholars in the archaeology of the late antique and early medieval periods address the key results and directions of Roman rural fieldwork. In so doing they highlight problems of analysis and interpretation whilst also identifying the variety of transformations that rural Europe experienced during and following the decline of Roman hegemony. This volume is essential reading for anyone wanting an up-to-date summary of the results of archaeological and historical investigations into the changing countryside of the late Roman, late antique and early medieval world between the fourth and tenth centuries AD. It questions numerous aspects of change and continuity, assessing the levels of impact of military and economic decay, the spread and influence of Christianity, and the role of Germanic, Slav and Arab settlement in disrupting and redefining the ancient rural landscapes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781840146172
• ISBN-10: 1840146176
• Artikelnr.: 44558979

Autorenporträt

Neil Christie

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Landscapes of change in late antiquity and the early middle ages: themes
directions and problems
Neil Christie; Elites
exhibitionism and the society of the late Roman villa
Sarah Scott; Interpreting the transformation of late Roman villas: the case of Hispania
Alexandra ChavarrÃa Arnau; From Vicus to village: Italian landscapes
AD 400-1000
Paul Arthur; Vandal
Byzantine and Arab rural landscapes in North Africa
Anna Leone and David Mattingly; Problems in interpreting rural and urban settlement in southern Greece
AD 365-700
G.D.R. Sanders; Balkan ghosts? Nationalism and the question of rural continuity in Albania
William Bowden and Richard Hodges; Cataclysm on the lower Danube: the destruction of a complex Roman landscape
Andrew Poulter; The origin of the village in early medieval Gaul
Patrick Périn; The late antique landscape of Britain
AD 300-700
Ken Dark; The archaeology of early Anglo-Saxon settlements: past
present and future
Helena Hamerow; Index.