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

Turner, Sam

 
9780859897747: Making a Christian Landscape: The countryside in early-medieval Cornwall, Devon and Wessex
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0859897745 ISBN 13: 9780859897747
Publisher: University of Exeter Press, 2006

Synopsis


Sam Turner’s important new interpretation of early medieval patterns of landscape development traces landscape change in the South West 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). Using innovative new research methods, and making use of 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.

 

Using modern mapping techniques to explore land-use trends, Turner advances a new model for the evolution of ecclesiastical institutions in south-west England. 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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About the Author

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

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Publisher
University of Exeter Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0859897745
ISBN 13 
9780859897747
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
2
Number of pages
218