Transforming Townscapes

From Burh to Borough: The Archaeology of Wallingford, AD 800-1400
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-909662-09-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 508 Seiten, Format (B × H): 208 mm x 295 mm, Gewicht: 1456 g

Reihe: The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs

Transforming Townscapes 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Christie, Neil

Creighton, Oliver

Edgeworth, Matt

Hamerow, Helena

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures, Preface and Acknowledgements, Foreword, Summaries, Abbreviations, 1. Wallingford in focus, 2. Investigating the townscape and hinterland: methods and sources, 3. Wallingford before the burh, 4. The emergent burh: early medieval Wallingford, 5. Structures of power: the castle, 6. Approaching Wallingford castle and town, 7. Religious landscapes: spaces, structures and status, 8. Living, working and trading in medieval Wallingford, 9. Provisioning burh and borough: mint, markets and landscape, 10. Situating Wallingford, Appendices

Über Autor(innen)

Neil Christie