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Sto caricando le informazioni... Fortified settlements in early medieval Europe : defended communities of the 8th-10th centuriesdi Neil Christie
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While much new work has appeared recently on fortified sites in different parts of Europe, this book stands out by offering a cross-regional comparison, the scope and coverage of which go far beyond a simple collection of conference papers. The twenty-three geographically organized contributions review the theme of the book by means of regional surveys and case studies, in landscapes ranging from Northwest Europe to the Mediterranean and Adriatic. Nearly a handbook, albeit without the consistency but also redundancy characteristic of that format, Fortified Settlements presents a continental panorama on its subject, currently offered by no other study.
"Twenty-three contributions by leading archaeologists from across Europe explore the varied forms, functions and significances of fortified settlements in the 8th to 10th centuries AD. These could be sites of strongly martial nature, upland retreats, monastic enclosures, rural seats, island bases, or urban nuclei. But they were all expressions of control--of states, frontiers, lands, materials, communities--and ones defined by walls, ramparts or enclosing banks. Papers run from Irish cashels to Welsh and Pictish strongholds, Saxon burhs, Viking fortresses, Byzantine castra, Carolingian creations, Venetian barricades, Slavic strongholds, and Bulgarian central places, and coverage extends fully from north-west Europe, to central Europe, the northern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Strongly informed by recent fieldwork and excavations, but drawing also where available on the documentary record, this important collection provides fully up-to-date reviews and analyses of the archaeologies of the distinctive settlement forms that characterised Europe in the Early Middle Ages"--From publisher's website. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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