John Blair (ed.)

Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England

Herausgeber: Blair, John

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first study of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman canals and waterways, this book is based on new evidence surrounding the nature of water transport in the period. A collection of essays from economic historians, geographers, geomorphologists, archaeologists, and place-name scholars, this study unearths this neglected but important aspect of medieval engineering and economic growth. Its new perspective broadens our understanding of the economy, landscape, settlement patterns, and inter-regional contacts of medieval England.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780199217151
• ISBN-10: 0199217157
• Artikelnr.: 23089883

Autorenporträt

John Blair is Lecturer in Modern History and Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at Queen's College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part I: Waterways, Geography and Economy
* 1: FIONA EDMONDS: Barrier or Unifying Feature? Defining the Nature of
Early Medieval Water Transport in the North-West
* 2: DELLA HOOKE: Uses of Waterways in Anglo-Saxon England
* 3: ANN COLE: The Place-Name Evidence for Water Transport in Early
Medieval England
* 4: MARK GARDINER: Hythes, Small Ports and Other Landing Places in
Later Medieval England
* 5: JOHN LANGDON: The Efficiency of Inland Water Transport in Medieval
England
* Part II: Improved Waterways and Canals
* 6: ED RHODES: Identifying Human Modification of River Channels
* 7: JAMES BOND: Canal Construction in the Early Middle Ages: an
Introductory Review
* 8: STEPHEN RIPPON: Waterways and Water Transport on Reclaimed Coastal
Marshlands: the Somerset Levels and Beyond
* 9: CHARLES and NANCY HOLLINRAKE: The Water Roads of Somerset
* 10: CHARLES and NANCY HOLLINRAKE: Glastonbury's Anglo-Saxon Canal and
Dunstan's Dyke
* 11: CHRISTOPHER K. CURRIE: Early Water Management on the Lower River
Itchen in Hampshire
* 12: JOHN BLAIR: Transport and Canal-Building on the Upper Thames,
1000-1300