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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

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Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2018.
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©2018
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1 online resource (xvii, 218 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
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Diarte Blasco, Pilar and Christie, Neil
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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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9781789250350 (electronic bk.)
1789250358 (electronic bk.)
9781789250374 (electronic bk.)
1789250374 (electronic bk.)
9781789250343
178925034X
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Includes bibliographical references.
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