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Fossiele eiken, veen- of bostoponiemen, Romeinse houtskoolmeilers, wildforstersgoederen, kogelpotten, relieken en bescherming van het landschap: in De logica van het landschap geven 31 artikelen samen een beeld van het brede werkterrein van de archeologie en landschapsgeschiedenis. De auteurs zijn archeologen of onderzoekers uit aanpalende vakgebieden. Ze schrijven over de archeologie van Oost-Nederland en Limburg, over bossen en bosgeschiedenis, veengebieden en zandlandschappen, maar ook over onderwerpen als de voedingsmiddelenbehoefte, bevolkingsdichtheid, Oranjekeramiek en kerkarchitectuur. De logica van het landschap is een zeer gevarieerd en rijk geïllustreerd boek voor iedereen die ge...
Negenhonderd jaar geleden – 1122-2022 – werd besloten de (Kromme) Rijn bij Wijk bij Duurstede af te dammen. Met de aanleg van de dam werd de Lekdijk van Amerongen naar Vreeswijk geheel gesloten. Het land in de lage broeklanden achter de dijk kon nu worden ontgonnen voor de landbouw. Zonder dam, zonder dijk en zonder ontginning zou het Kromme Rijngebied er tegenwoordig heel anders uitzien. Daarom dit herdenkingsboek, voorzien van veel illustraties en een groot aantal oude én nieuwe kaarten waarvan een deel nooit eerder is gepubliceerd. Het boek beschrijft hoe het landschap er vóór de afdamming uitzag, waar mensen toen woonden en hoe zij het land gebruikten. Het beantwoordt vragen als hoe en door wie het gebied is ontgonnen, welke rol de Utrechtse bisschop had en hoe het water buiten de deur werd (en wordt) gehouden. Daarnaast gaat het in op de latere ontwikkeling van dorpen en kastelen. Bijna veertig jaar geleden verscheen het standaardwerk van Dekker ‘Het Kromme Rijngebied in de Middeleeuwen’. Deze publicatie borduurt voort op dat werk en biedt nieuwe inzichten en bevindingen.
In July 2014, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden hosted the second Dorestad congress, exactly five years after the first. This congress was attached to the exhibition Golden Middle Ages: The Netherlands in the Merovingian World, 400-700 AD and brought together scholars to discuss these 'Dark Ages', their burials and settlements, rituals and identities, and the position of the Low Countries in the world-wide networks of early-medieval Europe. The congress opened with a keynote lecture by dr. Gareth Williams (The British Museum). Sessions were devoted to key themes like early-medieval identity and agency, so-called royal burials in Europe, significant find categories like garnets, coins and Merovingian glass, important new sites and finds from the Low Countries and recent work in the Carolingian vicus famosus of Dorestad.
Elemento centrale della vita delle società umane nell’età medievale, le “selve oscure” di dantesca memoria potevano essere usate come potenti metafore letterarie, ma rappresentavano anche spazi ecologici, nicchie di biodiversità, risorse economiche e oggetti di tutela giuridica. Per questo si propongono quale luogo per eccellenza di dialogo interdisciplinare. Le ricerche qui raccolte presentano alcuni dei molteplici approcci possibili allo studio dei boschi nell’Italia dei secoli XIII e XIV, coinvolgendo storici e storiche della letteratura e dell’arte, della cultura e della società, dell’economia e delle istituzioni, nonché studiosi e studiose di botanica, archeologia e paleobotanica.
Innovations, transmissions and transformations had profound spatial, economic and social impacts on the environments, landscapes and habitats evident at micro- and macro-levels. This volume explores how these changes affected how land was worked, how it was organized, and the nature of buildings and rural complexes.
Disasters and History offers the first comprehensive historical overview of hazards and disasters. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the Black Death, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and the Fukushima disaster, the authors examine how societies dealt with shocks and hazards and their potentially disastrous outcomes. They reveal the ways in which the consequences and outcomes of these disasters varied widely not only between societies but also within the same societies according to social groups, ethnicity and gender. They also demonstrate how studying past disasters, including earthquakes, droughts, floods and epidemics, can provide a lens through which to understand the social, economic and political functioning of past societies and reveal features of a society which may otherwise remain hidden from view. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
"The Randstad metropolitan region encompassing Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht in the western Netherlands is regarded worldwide as a model of a 'successful' polycentric metropolis. It is widely cited as an example of how a region of interconnected small cities can effectively compete globally by providing complementary functions which together match the power of large monocentric cities. The methods of strategic spatial planning, regional design and strategic projects that are said to underpin this polycentric metropolis are used as models for practitioners and students around the world. But is this high reputation deserved? Does the Randstad really function as a polycentric metr...
Athenian Potters and Painters III presents a rich mass of new material on Greek vases, including finds from excavations at the Kerameikos in Athens and Despotiko in the Cyclades. Some contributions focus on painters or workshops – Paseas, the Robinson Group, and the structure of the figured pottery industry in Athens; others on vase forms – plates, phialai, cups, and the change in shapes at the end of the sixth century BC. Context, trade, kalos inscriptions, reception, the fabrication of inscribed painters’ names to create a fictitious biography, and the reconstruction of the contents of an Etruscan tomb are also explored. The iconography and iconology of various types of figured scene...
This volume presents Europe-wide perspectives on urban life in medieval Europe through the study of artefacts and environmental remains. 0Artefacts and environmental remains are abundant from archaeological excavations across Europe, but until now they have most commonly been used to accompany broader narratives built on historical sources and studies of topography and buildings, rather than being studied as important evidence in their own right. The papers in this volume aim to redress the balance by taking an environmental and artefact-based approach to life in medieval Europe.00The contributions included here address central themes such as urban identities, the nature of towns and their r...