Making a Christian Landscape: The countryside in early-medieval Cornwall, Devon and Wessex - Hardcover

Turner, Sam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0859897745 ISBN 13: 9780859897747

Verlag: University of Exeter Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Making a Christian Landscape is an important new interpretation of early medieval patterns of landscape development.


Sam Turner's new book traces landscape change in south-west Britian from the introduction of Christianity to the Norman Conquest (AD c. 450-1070). It 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). Combining innovative new research methods with 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.


Employing modern mapping techniques to explore land-use trends, Turner advances a new model for the evolution of ecclesiastical institutions in south-west Britain. He shows that the early development of Christianity had an impact on the countryside that remains visible in the landscape we see today.


Accessibly written with a glossary of terms and a comprehensive bibliography, the book will appeal to both veterans and newcomers to landscape archaeology.

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Sam Turner is lecturer in archaeology at Newcastle University and editor of the Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Exeter Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0859897745
• ISBN 13: 9780859897747
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 254
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