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The fields of Britannia /
It has long been recognized that the landscape of Britain is one of the 'richest historical records we possess', but just how old is it? 'The Fields of Britannia' is the first book to explore how far the countryside of Roman Britain has survived in use through to the present day,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Corby :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Cover""; ""The Fields of Britannia: Continuity and Change in the Late Roman and Early Medieval Landscape""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Preface and Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Chapter1""; ""Chapter2""; ""Chapter3""; ""Chapter4""; ""Chapter5""; ""Chapter6""; ""Chapter7""; ""Chapter8""; ""Chapter9""; ""Chapter10""; ""Chapter11""; ""Chapter12""; ""List of Tables""; ""List of Appendices""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Note on Period and Other Terminology""; ""Presentational Conventions""; ""1: Fields of Britannia""; ""BritainÂ?s Green and Pleasant Land""
- ""Perspectives on an Age of Transition""""The End of Roman Britain""; ""A `Late AntiqueÂ? Landscape? Native Britons and Anglo-Saxons in Lowland Britain""; ""The Fields of Britannia""; ""2: A Regional Approach to Studying Landscape""; ""Landscape Character in Roman Britain""; ""Landscape Character in the Early Medieval Period""; ""The Earliest Medieval Period (Fifth to Mid-Seventh Centuries)""; ""The `Long Eighth CenturyÂ? (Late Seventh to Mid-Ninth Century)""; ""The Mid-Ninth to the Mid-Eleventh Centuries""; ""Mapping the Regions and Pays of First-Millenium ad Britain""; ""Regions""; ""Pays""
- ""The Fields of Britannia Regions of Late Roman and Early Medieval Britain""""South East England""; ""The Central Zone""; ""East Anglia""; ""The South West""; ""Western Lowlands""; ""North East Lowlands""; ""Northern Uplands""; ""Lowland Wales""; ""Upland Wales""; ""3: A Landscape Approach to the Roman-Medieval Transition""; ""Reconstructing Patterns of Land-Use""; ""Palaeoenvironmental Sequences""; ""Palaeoeconomic Data""; ""Methodological Considerations""; ""Animal Husbandry""; ""Cereal Cultivation""; ""Discussion""; ""The Fieldscape of Roman Britain""; ""Buried and Relict Landscapes""
- ""Romano-British Field Systems Preserved Within the Historic Landscape of Today""""The Fieldscape of Early Medieval Britain""; ""The Earliest Medieval Period (the `Early and Middle Saxon PeriodÂ?)""; ""The Long Eighth Century (`Middle Saxon PeriodÂ?) and the Origins of Open Fields""; ""The Fields of Britannia Methodology""; ""A Note on Period Terminology""; ""Continuity and Discontinuity""; ""Changing Paradigms""; ""Continuity and Discontinuity of Different Landscape Components""; ""Modelling Landscape Change""; ""Discussion""; ""4: The South East""; ""Introduction""
- ""Environment and Land-Use""""The Brede, Pett, and Rye Levels: The Landward Edge of Romney Marsh""; ""The Weald""; ""The Weald Margin""; ""The South Downs""; ""The Hampshire Basin""; ""The Lower Thames Terraces""; ""The South Essex London Clay""; ""The Essex Boulder Clay Plateau""; ""Discussion: Land-Use Across the South East Region""; ""The Legacy of Late Romano-British Field Systems""; ""The Coaxial Landscape of Southern Essex""; ""The Regularly Arranged Landscapes of Southern Essex: Discussion""; ""The Chalk Downlands""; ""Bagshot Heaths""; ""The Weald and Weald Margin""; ""Summary""