Interpreting transformations of people and landscapes in late antiquity and early middle ages
Información General
- Autores: Pilar Diarte Blasco (coord.), Neil Christie (coord.)
- Editores: Oxbow Books
- Año de publicación: 2018
- País: Reino Unido
- Idioma: inglés
- ISBN: 978-1-78925-034-3
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Resumen
In this volume of papers, deriving from two conferences held in Rome and Leicester in 2016, nineteen leading European archaeologists discuss and interpret the complex evolution of landscapes – both urban and rural – across Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (c. AD 300–700). The geographical coverage extends from Italy to the Mediterranean West through to the Rhine frontier and onto Hadrian’s Wall. Core are questions of impacts due to the socio-political, religious, military and economic transformations affecting provinces, territories and kingdoms across these often turbulent centuries: how did townscapes change and at what rate? What were the fates of villas? When do post-classical landscapes emerge and in what form? To what degree did Europe become an insecure, defended landscape? In what ways did people – cityfolk, farmers, nobility, churchmen, merchants – adapt? Do the elite remain visible and how prominent is the Church? Where and how do we see culture change through the arrival of new groups or new ideas? Do burials form a clear guide to the changing world? And how did the environment change in this period of stress – was the classical period landscape much altered through the attested depopulation and economic deterioration? And underlying much of the discussion is a consideration of the nature and quality of our source material: how good is the archaeology of these periods and how good is our current reading of the materials available? Combined, these expert studies offer valuable new analyses of people and places in a complex, challenging and crucial period in European history.
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Listado de artículos
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Transformation in the cities of northern Italy between the Fifth and Seventh Centuries AD.: forms, functions and societies
págs. 1-10
Rome: an analysis of changes in topography and population between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
págs. 11-20
págs. 21-26
Per omnium villas vicosque cunctos: rural landscapes in Late Antique Southern Italy
págs. 27-42
The countryside of Southern Gaul from the Fourth to Seventh Centuries AD.: settlement, landscape and society
págs. 43-52
Villas, visigoths and evangelisation: rural archaeology in Late Antique Novempopulana
págs. 53-66
Rural settlements in the territory of Salamanca (Spain) between the Late Roman Period and Early Middle Ages: testing a model
págs. 67-82
Transformation in the Avon Valley from the Late Fourth to Seventh Centuries AD.: a case of study from the West Midlands, England
págs. 83-94
Changing landscapes?: land, people and environment in England, AD 350-600
págs. 95-112
Diversity in unity: exploring survival, transition and ethogenesis in Late Antique Western Britain
págs. 113-122
págs. 123-136
págs. 137-148
págs. 149-162
People and landscapes in Nothern Italy: interrogating the burial archaeology of the Early Middle Ages
págs. 163-178
Rural and urban contexts in North-Eastern Spain: examining and interpreting transformations across the Fifth-Seventh Centuries AD
págs. 179-192
págs. 193-206
Discontinuities threads of continuity, academic inertia and all that: debating the Late Antique and Early Medieval archaeologies of inner Iberia
págs. 207-218
