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1 online resource (xxv, 1078 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Oxford handbooks |
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Oxford handbooks.
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| Contents |
PART I. Anglo-Saxon identity : ethnicity, culture, and genes. Overview : Anglo-Saxon identity / Catherine Hills -- The ending(s) of Roman Britain / Simon Esmonde Cleary -- Migration and endogenous change / Birte Brugmann -- Anglo-Scandinavian identity / Julian D. Richards -- The ending of Anglo-Saxon England : identity, allegiance, and nationality / David Griffiths -- Anglo-Saxon migration and the molecular evidence / Robert Hedges -- Dress and identity / Gale R. Owen-Crocker -- PART II. Rural settlement. Overview : Rural settlement / Helena Hamerow -- Timber buildings and their social context / Helena Hamerow -- Settlement hierarchy / Katharina Ulmschneider -- Local churches in the Anglo-Saxon countryside / Richard Morris -- Late Saxon settlements / Mark Gardiner -- PART III. Mortuary ritual. Overview : Mortuary ritual / Tania M. Dickinson -- Mortuary practices in early Anglo-Saxon England / Howard Williams -- The mid Saxon 'final phase' / Martin Welch -- Late Saxon burial practice / Dawn M. Hadley -- PART IV. Food Production. Overview : Rural production / Della Hooke -- Woods and the wild / Naomi Sykes -- Food plants on archaeological sites : the nature of the archaeobotanical record / Lisa Moffett -- Animal husbandry / Terry O'Connor -- Anglo-Saxon fields / Susan Oosthuizen -- PART V. Craft production and technology. Overview : Sources and limitations of evidence / Gabor Thomas -- Raw materials : sources and demand / David A. Hinton -- Anglo-Saxon crafts / Kevin Leahy -- Style : influences, chronology, and meaning / Leslie Webster -- PART VI. Trade, Exchange, and Urbanization. Overview : Trade, exchange and urbanization / Grenville Astill -- The fate of late Roman towns / Martin Henig -- Britons and Anglo-Saxons / Christopher Loveluck and Lloyd Laing -- Markets, emporia, wics, and 'productive' sites : pre-Viking trade centres in Anglo-Saxon England / Tim Pestell -- Coinage in its archaeological context / Mark Blackburn -- Burhs and boroughs : defended places, trade, and towns : plans, defences, civic features / R. A. Hall -- PART VII. The Body and Life Course. Overview : The body and life course / Sally Crawford -- Childhood to old age / Nick Stoodley -- Diet : recent evidence from analytical chemical techniques / Bradley D. Hull, Tamsin C. O'Connell -- Gender and gender roles / Sam Lucy -- Disease / Christina Lee -- PART VIII. The Archaeology of Religion. Overview : The archaeology of religion / John Blair -- Sacred spaces and places in pre-Christian and conversion period Anglo-Saxon England / Sarah Semple -- The archaeology of paganism / Aleks Pluskowski -- The material culture of the Anglo-Saxon church / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- The archaeology of the Anglo-Saxon book / Richard Gameson -- Christian sacred spaces and places / Helen Gittos -- PART IX. Signals of Power. Overview : Signals of power / Martin Carver -- Social transactions, gift exchange, and power in the archaeology of the fifth to seventh centuries / Christopher Scull -- Image and power in the early Saxon Period / Märit Gaimster -- Crime and punishment / Andrew Reynolds -- What were they thinking? : intellectual territories in Anglo-Saxon England / Martin Carver -- PART X. The Place of Archaeology in Anglo-Saxon Studies. Historical sources and archaeology / James Campbell -- Literary sources and archaeology / John Hines -- Place-names and archaeology / Margaret Gelling -- Anthropology and archaeology / Chris Gosden -- Anglo-Saxon archaeology and the public / Sonja Marzinzik |
| Summary |
Since the early 20th century the scholarly study of Anglo-Saxon texts has been augmented by systematic excavation and analysis of physical evidence - settlements, cemeteries, artefacts, environmental data, and standing buildings. This evidence has confirmed some readings of the Anglo-Saxon literary and documentary sources and challenged others. More recently, large-scale excavations both in towns and in the countryside, the application of computer methods to large bodies of data, new techniques for site identification such as remote sensing, and new dating methods have put archaeology at the forefront of Anglo-Saxon studies. "The handbook of Anglo-Saxon archaeology", written by a team of experts and presenting the results of the most up-to-date research, will both stimulate and support further investigation into those aspects of Anglo-Saxon life and culture which archaeology has fundamentally illuminated. It will prove an essential resourse for our understanding of a society poised at the interface between prehistory and history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Anglo-Saxons.
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Anglo-Saxons.
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Antiquities.
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Regions & Countries - Europe.
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History & Archaeology.
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Great Britain.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056606
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Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056730
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| Subject |
Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hamerow, Helena, editor.
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Hinton, David Alban, editor.
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Crawford, Sally (Sally Elizabeth Ellen), editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191743436 |
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0191743437 |
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