Mike McCarthy

Carlisle (eBook, PDF)

A Frontier and Border City

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Produktbeschreibung

Carlisle charts the city's emergence as an urban centre under the Romans and traces its vicissitudes over subsequent centuries until the high Middle Ages. Arguably, the most important theme that differentiates its development from many other towns is its position as a 'border' city. The characteristics of the landscape surrounding Carlisle gave it special significance as a front-line element in the defence of the Roman province of Britannia and later at the frontier of two emerging kingdoms, England and Scotland. In both cases it occupied the only overland route in the west between these two kingdoms, emphasising the importance of understanding its landscape setting.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317525318
• Artikelnr.: 48837596

Autorenporträt

Mike McCarthy, FSA is Emeritus Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Bradford, UK. From 1977 to 2001, he was Director of the Carlisle Archaeological Unit.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 The setting
2 An emerging frontier
3 Luguvalium: fabric and townscape
4 Luguvalium: people and economy
5 Late Roman Carlisle to the kingdom of Northumbria
6 Carlisle and an emerging new frontier
7 The Norman takeover
8 A border city
9 Conclusions
Index
Bibliography