Stephen Rippon

Territoriality and the Early Medieval Landscape (eBook, PDF)

The Countryside of the East Saxon Kingdom

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Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of small early folk communities prior to the eleventh century, showing their development and sophistication.

All communities have a strong sense of identity with the area in which they live, which for England in the early medieval period manifested itself in a series of territorial entities, ranging from large kingdoms down to small districts known as pagi or regiones. This book investigates these small early folk territories, and the way that they evolved into the administrative units recorded in Domesday, across an entire kingdom - that of the East Saxons (broadly speaking, what is now Essex, Middlesex, most of Hertfordshire, and south Suffolk). A wide range of evidence is drawn upon, including archaeology, written documents, place-names and the early cartographic sources. The book looks in particular at the relationship between Saxon immigrants and the native British population, and argues that initially these ethnic groups occupied different parts of the landscape, until a dynasty which assumed an Anglo-Saxon identity achieved political ascendency (its members included the so-called "Prittlewell Prince", buried with spectacular grave-good in Prittlewell, near Southend-on- Sea in southern Essex). Other significant places discussed include London, the seat of the first East Saxon bishopric, the possible royal vills at Wicken Bonhunt near Saffron Walden and Maldon, and St Peter's Chapel at Bradwell-on-Sea, one of the most important surviving churches from the early Christian period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787447813
• Artikelnr.: 63556317

Autorenporträt

Stephen Rippon is Professor of Landscape Archaeology at the University of Exeter, and current President of the Society for Medieval Archaeology.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: BACKGROUND Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Territoriality in Early
Medieval England Chapter 3 Reconstructing Early Medieval Folk Territories
PART II: THE EARLY FOLK TERRITORIES Chapter 4 From Early Folk Territory to
Domesday Vills: The Rochford Peninsula Chapter 5 Immigration and
Integration in the Central Thameside Districts: The Fen District and
Havering Chapter 6 The Province of the Middle Saxons Chapter 7 Fringes of
the Kingdom: The Eastern Coastal Districts and the Landscape Context of
Anglo-Saxon Colonisation Chapter 8 A British Domain: The Central Claylands,
Place-names, Early Medieval Territorial Identity, and the -ingas Question
Chapter 9 Another British Domain: The Northern Claylands Chapter 10 And
Another British Domain: The Western Districts, and Romano-British
Antecedents of Early Medieval Central Places Chapter 11 Beyond the Northern
Frontier PART III: DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS Chapter 12 Agriculture and
Resource Management Chapter 13 Conclusions Appendices 1. Domesday
population densities across the 'Rochford Peninsula' early folk territory
2. Sites used in the analysis of animal bone assemblages 3. Sites used in
the analysis of charred cereal assemblages Bibliography Index