Christopher Loveluck

Northwest Europe in the Early Middle Ages, c.AD 600-1150 (eBook, ePUB)

A Comparative Archaeology

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Produktbeschreibung

Christopher Loveluck's study explores the transformation of Northwest Europe (primarily Britain, France and Belgium) from the era of the first post-Roman 'European Union' under the Carolingian Frankish kings to the so-called 'feudal' age, between c.AD 600 and 1150. During these centuries radical changes occurred in the organisation of the rural world. Towns and complex communities of artisans and merchant-traders emerged and networks of contact between northern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle and Far East were redefined, with long-lasting consequences into the present day. Loveluck provides the most comprehensive comparative analysis of the rural and urban archaeological remains in this area for twenty-five years. Supported by evidence from architecture, relics, manuscript illuminations and texts, this book explains how the power and intentions of elites were confronted by the aspirations and actions of the diverse rural peasantry, artisans and merchants, producing both intended and unforeseen social changes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107461383
• Artikelnr.: 40121180

Autorenporträt

Christopher Loveluck is Associate Professor and Reader in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Nottingham. He has directed and co-directed archaeological survey and excavation projects in Britain, Denmark, Belgium and France, and has published four other books as principal author or editor, and numerous articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Context: 1. Introduction; 2. The social fabric of Northwest Europe, AD 600
1150: paradigms and perspectives; Part II. The Age of the Carolingians, c.AD 600
900: 3. Small farming communities of West Francia, AD 600
900; 4. Larger farming communities, specialist producers and collectors in West Francia, AD 600
900; 5. Farming communities of Anglo
Saxon England and the Atlantic fringes, AD 600
900; 6. Expressions of leadership and models for emulation, AD 500
900; 7. Conspicuous consumption and secular authority in the landscape, AD 650
900; 8. Diocesan towns, AD 600
900; 9. Ports and maritime
oriented societies, AD 600
900; Part III. From the Viking Age to Angevin Hegemony: 10. Transformations in architectures and settings of public power, AD 900
1150; 11. The rural world, AD 900
1150: lifestyles of old and new aristocracies; 12. The rural world, AD 900
1150: social mobility, landscape reorganisation and colonization; 13. Major ports and merchant patricians as catalysts for social change, AD 900
1100; 14. Towns as regional centres and urban diversity, AD 900
1150; 15. Final conclusions.