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Offa's dyke : landscape and hegemony in eighth century Britain /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxbow Books,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- On Offa's Dyke; Acknowledgements; Preface; Foreword; Prefatory notes; Introduction: Landscape and hegemony: Offa's Dyke in dual perspective; PART ONE: THE BACKGROUND REVIEWED; 1 Offa's Dyke in profile: character, course and controversies; 2 Studying Offa's Dyke: a cumulative inheritance; 3 The Mercians: a border history; PART TWO: THE EVIDENCE EXPLORED; 4 Placing the Dyke in the landscape; 5 The structure of the Dyke; 6 Building and operating the Dyke; PART THREE: THE CONTEXT RE-APPRAISED; 7 In a frontier landscape; 8 The material of Mercian hegemony; 9 Offa's Dyke: power in the landscape.
- Epilogue: Reconnecting Offa's Dyke in the twenty-first centuryAppendix: Selected Offa's Dyke profiles; Notes; List of Figures; Bibliography; Index.