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Interpreting the Landscape
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

Interpreting the Landscape

Most places in Britain have had a local history written about them. Up until this century these histories have addressed more parochial issues, such as the life of the manor, rather than explaining the features and changes in the landscape in a factual manner. Much of what is visible today in Britain's landscape is the result of a chain of social and natural processes, and can be interpreted through fieldwork as well as from old maps and documents. Michael Aston uses a wide range of source material to study the complex and dynamic history of the countryside, illustrating his points with aerial photographs, maps, plans and charts. He shows how to understand the surviving remains as well as offering his own explanations for how our landscape has evolved.

Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 414

Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1882
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE

Although lowland Britain in 300 CE had been as Roman as any province in the empire, in the generations on either side of 400, urban life, the money economy, and the functioning state collapsed. Many of the most quotidian and fundamental elements of Roman-style material culture ceased to be manufactured. Skills related to iron and copper smelting, wooden board and plank making, stone quarrying, commercial butchery, horticulture, and tanning largely disappeared, as did the knowledge standing behind the production of wheel-thrown, kiln-fired pottery and building in stone. No other period in Britain's prehistory or history witnessed the loss of so many classes of once-common skills and objects. ...

New Serial Titles
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1336

New Serial Titles

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

Tracts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 80

Tracts

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1897
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Stadtgestalt im Zeichen der Eroberung
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 604

Stadtgestalt im Zeichen der Eroberung

In den Jahren nach der normannischen Eroberung von 1066 befanden sich Staat und Gesellschaft in England im Umbruch. Diese Phase der Diskontinuität manifestierte sich in besonders auffälliger Weise in den Kathedralstädten des Landes. Die neuen Herren - geistliche wie weltliche - initiierten hier ein einzigartiges Bauprogramm, das einhergehend mit einer ebenso umfassenden Zerstörung der alten Stadtlandschaften sowie der Monumentkultur der angelsächsischen Zeit die gesamte urbane Kultur Englands erfasste und veränderte. Im vorliegenden Buch analysiert und beschreibt Ulrich Fischer den tiefgreifenden Wandel, von dem alle 17 englischen Kathedralstädte in ähnlichem Maße betroffen waren. Er erforscht im Einzelnen systematisch die Mentalitäten und Intentionen, die die Eroberer zum Bau von Burgen und teilweise aufwändigen Residenzen, zur Errichtung von oft monumentalen Kathedralen und urbanen Klosterkirchen und schließlich zur durchgreifenden Umgestaltung der innerstädtischen Infrastruktur und sogar zur vielfachen Verlegung der Bischofssitze in andere Städte veranlassten.

Indexed Periodicals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 456

Indexed Periodicals

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