Early medieval settlements : the archaeology of rural communities in northwest Europe, 400-900 / Helena Hamerow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamerow, Helena.

Series:

Medieval history and archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agricultural geography.

Land settlement.

Europe, Western--Antiquities.

Europe, Western.

Western Europe.

Antiquities.

Land settlement--Europe, Western.

Agricultural geography--Europe, Western.

Europe, Western--Rural conditions--History.

Rural conditions.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

The excavation of settlements has in recent years transformed our understanding of north-west Europe in the early Middle Ages. We can for the first time begin to answer fundamental questions such as: what did houses look like and how were they furnished? how did villages and individual farmsteads develop? how and when did agrarian production become intensified and how did this affect village communities? what role did craft production and trade play in the rural economy? In a period for which written sources are scarce, archaeology is of central importance in understanding the 'small worlds' of early medieval communities. Helena Hamerow's extensively illustrated and accessible study offers the first overview and synthesis of the large and rapidly growing body of evidence for early medieval settlements in north-west Europe, as well as a consideration of the implications of this evidence for Anglo-Saxon England.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-219) and index.

ISBN:

0199246971

OCLC:

49627722