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Title Interpreting transformations of people and landscapes in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages : archaeological approaches and issues / edited by Pilar Diarte-Blasco; Neil Christie.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2018.
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 218 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary In this volume, 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 underlying much of the discussion is a consideration of the nature and quality of our source material.
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Subject Civilization, Ancient -- Congresses.
Civilization, Ancient.
Civilization, Classical -- Congresses.
Civilization, Classical.
Landscape archaeology -- Congresses.
Landscape archaeology.
Geography, Ancient -- Congresses.
Geography, Ancient.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Diarte Blasco, Pilar, editor.
Christie, Neil, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Interpreting transformations of people and landscapes in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2018 9781789250343 (OCoLC)1051751355
ISBN 9781789250350 (electronic book)
1789250358 (electronic book)
9781789250343
178925034X