Making sense of an historic landscape

Making sense of an historic landscape / Stephen Rippon.

This volume explores how the archaeologist or historian can understand variations in landscapes. Making use of a wide range of sources and techniques, including archaeological material, documentary sources, and maps, Rippon illustrates how local and regional variations in the 'historic landscap...

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Main Author: Rippon, Stephen, 1968-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Historic sites > England > West Country.
Landscapes > England > West Country.
HISTORY > Historical Geography.
Historic sites
Historical geography
Landscapes
England, Southern > Historical geography.
Southern England
England > West Country
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of figures; List of plates; List of tables; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The physical character of landscape; 3. 'The most beautiful landskip in the world'? The perceived character of landscape; 4. Characterizing the cultural landscape: the pattern and language of settlement; 5. Houses in the landscape; 6. The character of the fieldscape; 7. Beyond the morphology of fieldscapes; 8. Reconstructing early medieval territorial arrangements; 9. Early folk territories on and around the Blackdown Hills
  • 10. People in the landscape: the development of territorial structures in early Medieval western Wessex and beyond11. Patterns of land use: documentary evidence and palaeoenvironmental sequences; 12. Arable cultivation and animal husbandry in the medieval period; 13. Arable cultivation and animal husbandry in the Roman period; 14. Regional variation in landscape character during the late prehistoric and Roman periods; 15. Discussion and conclusions: communities and their landscapes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

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