Richard Morris

Time's Anvil

England, Archaeology and the Imagination

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A personal and lyrical rediscovery of the history of England through archaeology and the imagination.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9781780222448
• ISBN-10: 1780222440
• Artikelnr.: 37720004

Autorenporträt

Richard Morris is emeritus professor of archaeology at the University of Huddersfield. He began his career working on excavations under York Minster in 1971. Since then he has worked as a university teacher, as director of the Council for British Archaeology, as director of the Leeds Institute for Medieval Studies, and as a writer and composer. His book Churches in the Landscape (1989) is widely regarded as a pioneering classic. Time's Anvil: England, Archaeology and the Imagination was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and shortlisted for the Current Archaeology Book of the Year Award. He is completing a new biography of the aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis, and working on a social history of interwar England from the air.

Rezensionen

The press release for this remarkable book announces that it 'defies categorisation'. It is not wrong. Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize, Time's Anvil contemplates what is now England over a span of 750,000 years.

Sometimes we are left with snapshots, including the varying view from Paviland Cave over the last 29,000 years; elsewhere the text lingers, as with the felling of the Old Wood. Along the way we meet eminent practitioners of many disciplines, as archaeology itself emerges and the stories it tells evolve. 'Archaeology', we are told, 'might be seen as but a late ripple in the cult of ancestors'. An acquired taste, perhaps, but presenting archaeology in this way has created an especially thought-provoking read
Matthew Symonds ARCHAEOLOGY.CO.UK 20150107