Early Medieval Settlements

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. SERIES DESCRIPTION: The aim of the series is to reflect the creative dialogue that is developing between the disciplines of medieval history and archaeology. It will integrate archaeological and historical approaches to aspects of medieval society, economy, and culture. A range of archaeological evidence will be presented and interpreted in ways accessible to historians, while providing a historical perspective and context for those studying the material culture of the period.

ISBN 0199273189   Pages 240 ISBN13 9780199273188 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 494 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Series title Medieval History & Archaeology Publication date 15 Jul 2004   Height (mm) 246 Library of Congress D125 \.H36   Width (mm) 171 DEWEY 940.1   Spine width (mm) 13 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

1		Rural communities in early Medieval Europe : archaeological approaches and frameworks		1
2		Houses and households : the archaeology of buildings		12
3		Settlement structure and social space		52
4		Land and power : settlements in their territorial context		100
5		The forces of production : crop and animal husbandry		125
6		Rural centres, trade, and non-agrarian production		156
7		Epilogue : trajectories and turning-points		191

"This short, clearly written book, the first of a series on medieval society, is...useful to archaeologists and historians alike."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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