Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England write by John Blair. This book was released on 2007-10-25. Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first study of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman canals and waterways, this book is based on new evidence surrounding the nature of water transport in the period. England is naturally well-endowed with a network of navigable rivers, especially the easterly systems draining into the Thames, Wash and Humber. The central middle ages saw innovative and extensive development of this network, including the digging of canals bypassing difficult stretches of rivers, or linking rivers to important production centres. The eleventh and twelfth centuries seem to have been the high point for this dynamic approach to water-transport: after 1200, the improvement of roads and bridges increasingly diverted resources away from the canals, many of which stagnated with the reassertion of natural drainage patterns. The new perspective presented in this study has an important bearing on the economy, landscape, settlement patterns and inter-regional contacts of medieval England. Essays from economic historians, geographers, geomorphologists, archaeologists, and place-name scholars unearth this neglected but important aspect of medieval engineering and economic growth.
Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England
Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England write by John Blair. This book was released on 2007-10-25. Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman canals and waterways, this book is based on evidence surrounding the nature of water transport in the period. A collection of essays, this study unearths this neglected but important aspect of medieval engineering and economic growth.
Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World
Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World write by Maren Clegg Hyer. This book was released on 2017. Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study of the waterscapes of the Anglo-Saxon world will assist serious students of the Anglo-Saxon period in both perceiving and understanding both the textual imagery and the archaeology of water in Anglo-Saxon England.
The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain
The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain write by Christopher Gerrard. This book was released on 2018-01-11. The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Middle Ages are all around us in Britain. The Tower of London and the castles of Scotland and Wales are mainstays of cultural tourism and an inspiring cross-section of later medieval finds can now be seen on display in museums across England, Scotland, and Wales. Medieval institutions from Parliament and monarchy to universities are familiar to us and we come into contact with the later Middle Ages every day when we drive through a village or town, look up at the castle on the hill, visit a local church or wonder about the earthworks in the fields we see from the window of a train. The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain provides an overview of the archaeology of the later Middle Ages in Britain between AD 1066 and 1550. 61 entries, divided into 10 thematic sections, cover topics ranging from later medieval objects, human remains, archaeological science, standing buildings, and sites such as castles and monasteries, to the well-preserved relict landscapes which still survive. This is a rich and exciting period of the past and most of what we have learnt about the material culture of our medieval past has been discovered in the past two generations. This volume provides comprehensive coverage of the latest research and describes the major projects and concepts that are changing our understanding of our medieval heritage.
Transforming Townscapes
Transforming Townscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transforming Townscapes write by Neil Christie. This book was released on 2017-12-02. Transforming Townscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This monograph details the results of a major archaeological project based on and around the historic town of Wallingford in south Oxfordshire. Founded in the late Saxon period as a key defensive and administrative focus next to the Thames, the settlement also contained a substantial royal castle established shortly after the Norman Conquest. The volume traces the pre-town archaeology of Wallingford and then analyses the town's physical and social evolution, assessing defences, churches, housing, markets, material culture, coinage, communications and hinterland. Core questions running through the volume relate to the roles of the River Thames and of royal power in shaping Wallingford's fortunes and identity and in explaining the town's severe and early decline."
