Making a Christian Landscape
Sam Turner
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Description for Making a Christian Landscape
Paperback. Sam Turner's important new interpretation of early medieval patterns of landscape development traces landscape change in the South West from the introduction of Christianity to the Norman Conquest (AD c. 450-1070). Num Pages: 200 pages, c. 70 b&w photographs, maps & tables, 4-colour cover. BIC Classification: 1DBKEW; HBJD1; HBLC; HDDM; HRCC2. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 173 x 15. Weight in Grams: 636.
Sam Turner’s important interpretation of early medieval patterns of landscape development traces landscape change in the South West from the introduction of Christianity to the Norman Conquest (AD c. 450–1070).
The book stresses the significance of political and religious ideology in both the ‘Celtic’ west (especially Cornwall) and the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ east (especially the Wessex counties of Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire and Dorset). Using innovative new research methods, and making use of archaeology, place-name evidence, historical sources and land-use patterns, it challenges previous work on the subject by suggesting that the two regions have much in common.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Exeter, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780859897853
SKU
V9780859897853
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99-2
About Sam Turner
Sam Turner is senior lecturer in archaeology at Newcastle University and editor of the Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings.
Reviews for Making a Christian Landscape
“…this welcome addition to the literature on south-western Britain in the early middle ages” “Readable, scholarly and insightful.”
British Archaeology
In this important new study, Sam Turner argues that the changing pattern of settlements and estates in early medieval south-west Britain owed a great deal to a new Christian ideology of landscape. ..…the book serves ... Read more
British Archaeology
In this important new study, Sam Turner argues that the changing pattern of settlements and estates in early medieval south-west Britain owed a great deal to a new Christian ideology of landscape. ..…the book serves ... Read more