The material fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE

The material fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE / Robin Fleming.

"Although lowland Britain in 300 CE had been as Roman as any province in the empire, in the generations on either side of 400, urban life, the money economy, and the functioning state collapsed. Many of the most quotidian and fundamental elements of Roman-style material culture ceased to be man...

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Main Author: Fleming, Robin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Material culture > Great Britain > History > To 1500.
Great Britain > Antiquities, Roman.
Great Britain > Antiquities.
Great Britain > Civilization > To 1066.
Great Britain > History > Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D.
Great Britain > History > Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Down a rabbit hole?
  • Chapter 1. The world the annona made
  • Chapter 2. The rise and fall of plants, animals, and places
  • Chapter 3. Why pots matter
  • Chapter 4. The afterlife of Roman ceramic and glass vessels
  • Chapter 5. Pragmatic, symbolic, and ritual use of Roman brick and quarried stone
  • Chapter 6. Metal production under and after Rome
  • Chapter 7. Living with little corpses
  • Chapter 8. Who was buried in early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries?
  • Chapter 9. The great disentanglement.

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