Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Europe
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Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Europe

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Europe

About this book

Twenty-three contributions by leading archaeologists from across Europe explore the varied forms, functions and significances of fortified settlements in the 8th to 10th centuries AD. These could be sites of strongly martial nature, upland retreats, monastic enclosures, rural seats, island bases, or urban nuclei. But they were all expressions of control - of states, frontiers, lands, materials, communities - and ones defined by walls, ramparts or enclosing banks. Papers run from Irish cashels to Welsh and Pictish strongholds, Saxon burhs, Viking fortresses, Byzantine castra, Carolingian creations, Venetian barricades, Slavic strongholds, and Bulgarian central places, and coverage extends fully from northwest Europe, to central Europe, the northern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Strongly informed by recent fieldwork and excavations, but drawing also where available on the documentary record, this important collection provides fully up-to-date reviews and analyses of the archaeology of the distinctive settlement forms that characterized Europe in the Early Middle Ages.

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Information

Publisher
Oxbow Books
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781785702389
Topic
History
Subtopic
British History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Frontcover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. List of Tables
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction. Defining and Understanding Defended Settlements in Early Medieval Europe: Structures, Roles, Landscapes and Communities Neil Christie & Hajnalka Herold
  10. PART I: NORTH-WESTERN EUROPE
  11. PART II: CENTRAL EUROPE
  12. PART III: WESTERN EUROPE
  13. PART IV: MEDITERRANEAN AND ADRIATIC EUROPE