Roman infrastructure in Early Medieval Britain : the adaptations of the past in text and stone / Mateusz Fafinski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fafinski, Mateusz, author.

Series:

Early medieval North Atlantic.

The early medieval North Atlantic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romans--Great Britain.

Romans.

Great Britain--Antiquities, Roman.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--Medieval period, 1066-1485.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Early Medieval Britain is more Roman than we think. The Roman Empire left vast infrastructural resources on the island. These resources lay buried not only in dirt and soil, but also in texts, laws, chronicles - even charters, churches, and landscapes. This book uncovers them and shows how they shaped Early Medieval Britain. Infrastructure, material and symbolic, can work in ways that are not immediately obvious and exert an influence long after the builders have gone. Infrastructure can also rest dormant and be reactivated with a changed function, role and appearance. This is not a simple story of continuity and discontinuity: it is a story of transformation, of how the Roman infrastructural past was used and re-used, and also how it influenced the later societies of Britain.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Prologue

I. Frameworks: From Historiography to the Principal Terms

II. Movements: Charters and Roman Transport Infrastructure

III. Accomodations: Roman Urban Spaces in Post-Roman and Early Medieval Britain

IV. Spaces: The Church and What Rome Left

Epilogue

Bibliography

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021).

ISBN:

1-003-70313-5

9781003703136

OCLC:

1241446374