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The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain: Oxford Handbooks

Editat de Christopher Gerrard, Alejandra Gutiérrez
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 ian 2018
The Middle Ages are all around us in Britain. The Tower of London and the castles of Scotland and Wales are mainstays of cultural tourism and an inspiring cross-section of later medieval finds can now be seen on display in museums across England, Scotland, and Wales. Medieval institutions from Parliament and monarchy to universities are familiar to us and we come into contact with the later Middle Ages every day when we drive through a village or town, look up at the castle on the hill, visit a local church or wonder about the earthworks in the fields we see from the window of a train.The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain provides an overview of the archaeology of the later Middle Ages in Britain between AD 1066 and 1550. 61 entries, divided into 10 thematic sections, cover topics ranging from later medieval objects, human remains, archaeological science, standing buildings, and sites such as castles and monasteries, to the well-preserved relict landscapes which still survive. This is a rich and exciting period of the past and most of what we have learnt about the material culture of our medieval past has been discovered in the past two generations. This volume provides comprehensive coverage of the latest research and describes the major projects and concepts that are changing our understanding of our medieval heritage.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198744719
ISBN-10: 0198744714
Pagini: 1102
Dimensiuni: 179 x 249 x 61 mm
Greutate: 2.35 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Handbooks

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

The editors have done an exemplary job of knitting this volume together into a cohesive, readable and fluent landmark of scholarship for this field.
[The Handbook]...is a major achievement. It is as clear a synthesis of current thinking on later medieval archaeology as one could hope to achieve, and will be of use to all students of the period, whether archaeologists or those in other disciplines who wish for an authoritative guide to interpret and inform future studies.
Overall this collection represents an enormous editing project, which will serve as a very useful resource.
This is a very fine book, equally valuable to experts as to undergraduates. It will immediately establish itself as a key reference work

Notă biografică

Christopher Gerrard is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at Durham University. His eight books include Medieval Archaeology: Understanding Traditions and Contemporary Approaches (2003) and Interpreting the English Village: Landscape and Community at Shapwick, Somerset which won the Best Archaeological Book of the Year award in 2014. His fieldwork includes excavations in Spain and the Azores and projects on qanats, natural disasters in the Middle Ages and, most recently, the discovery of mass graves of 17th-century Scottish soldiers under one of the University's libraries.Alejandra Gutiérrez is a Research Fellow at Durham University. Her interests lie in the study of medieval and later material culture, particularly the movement of goods, trade and exchange, and European contact with Britain in the Middle Ages. She writes about ceramics and other archaeological finds and has authored numerous articles on the subject, including a book, Mediterranean Pottery in Wessex Households and an accompanying web-guide for the identification of medieval and later Spanish pottery ().