Landscapes of change : rural evolutions in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages / edited by Neil Christie.

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Christie, Neil [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781351923484
135192348X
9781315250915
1315250918
1351923471
9781351923477

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Landscapes of change.DDC classification:

304.2 23

LOC classification:

GF90

Other classification:

15.70

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Contents:

Landscapes of change in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages / Neil Christie -- Elites, exhibitionism and the society of the Late Roman villa / Sarah Scott -- Interpreting the transformation of Late Roman villas / Alexandra Chavarria Arnau -- From Vicus to village / Paul Arthur -- Vandal, Byzantine and Arab rural landscapes in North Africa / Anna Leone and David Mattingly -- Problems in interpreting rural and urban settlement in Southern Greece, AD 365-700 / G.D.R. Sanders -- Balkan ghosts? / William Bowden and Richard Hodges -- Cataclysm on the lower danube / Andrew Poulter -- The origin of the village in Early Medieval Gaul / Patrick Perin -- The late qntique landscape of Britain, AD 300-700 / Ken Dark -- The archaeology of early Anglo-Saxon settlements / Helena Hamerow.

Summary: Landscapes of Change is essential reading for anyone wanting an up-to-date summary of the results of archaeological and historical investigations into the changing countryside of the late Roman, late antique and early medieval world between the fourth and tenth centuries AD. It questions numerous aspects of change and continuity, assessing the levels of impact of military and economic decay, the spread and influence of Christianity, and the role of Germanic, Slav and Arab settlement in disrupting and redefining the ancient rural landscapes.

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Originally published: Ashgate Publishing, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Landscapes of Change is essential reading for anyone wanting an up-to-date summary of the results of archaeological and historical investigations into the changing countryside of the late Roman, late antique and early medieval world between the fourth and tenth centuries AD. It questions numerous aspects of change and continuity, assessing the levels of impact of military and economic decay, the spread and influence of Christianity, and the role of Germanic, Slav and Arab settlement in disrupting and redefining the ancient rural landscapes.