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The Route of the Franks The Journey of Archbishop Sigeric at the Twilight of the First Millennium AD.

A scientific study of the journey that Archbishop Sigeric of Canterbury undertook from the British Isles to Rome, focussing on the segment included in the territory of modern France. It not only reconstructs the route, but also offers an archaeological snapshot of the urban developments along the ro...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Corsi, Cristina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2022.
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents Page
  • List of Figures
  • Fig. 0.1: Canterbury, Christ Church. The milestone indicating the start of the Via Francigena to Rome. Photo Author.
  • Fig. 2.1: The Frankish expansion 356-795. After Hallam 1980: fig. 1.2.
  • Fig. 2.2: The empire of Charlemagne. Elaboration A. Panarello after Duby 1988: 194.
  • Fig. 2.3: Division of Charlemagne's kingdom after 843 (Treaty of Verdun). Elaboration A. Panarello after Duby 1987: 18.
  • Fig. 2.4: The rise of territorial principalities in the French Kingdom of the tenth century. Elaboration A. Panarello.
  • Fig. 2.5: The effective control of Hugh Capet over the Kingdom of France at the end of his reign (dotted) vs the areas of influence of the Counts of Blois and of Vermandois (grey). Elaboration A. Panarello after Duby 1987: 19, map 3.
  • Fig. 2.6: The political division of Europe around the year 1000. Elaboration A. Panarello after Duby 1987: 42.
  • Fig. 3.1: Sigeric's itinerary manuscript: British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius B.V, f.23v. © The British Library, https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/itinerary-of-archbishop-sigeric#. Public Domain.
  • Fig. 3.2: Canterbury. Schematic map of the town around the time of Sigeric's election. The Marlowe area is highlighted in grey. Elaboration Author after Brooks 2000: fig. 28.
  • Fig. 3.3: Canterbury, cathedral. Hypothetical reconstruction of the plan and section of the earlier Anglo-Saxon phase (2A). After Blockley 2000: fig. 16.
  • Fig. 3.4: Canterbury, cathedral. Phased plan of Anglo-Saxon remains (periods 2A-2C). After Blockley 2000: fig. 6.
  • Fig. 3.5: Canterbury, St Augustine's Abbey. General plan with location of the mound at the south-eastern edge. After Jenkins 1991: 2, fig. 1.
  • Fig. 3.6: Canterbury, St Augustine's Abbey. Reconstruction of the churches of SS Peter and Paul and of St Mary. A: seventh century
  • B: beginning of the eleventh century. After Gem 1992: 60, 62, figs. 5-6.
  • Fig. 3.7: Canterbury, St Augustine's Abbey. Plan of the excavated structures attributable to the Anglo-Saxon period (seventh-eleventh centuries). After Gem 1992: 58, fig. 4.
  • Fig. 3.8: Canterbury. Comparative table with the plans of the churches of Christ Church (A), St Martin (B), SS Peter and Paul (C) and St Pancras (D). After Blockey 2000: fig. 14. Courtesy of Durham University e-theses service.
  • Fig. 4.1 Schematic map of the road network in north-western France and the river Seine basin during the Carolingian age, with indication of the main centres (dot: centre, vicus), religious settlements (cross: abbey, monastic borough), smaller monastic set