People and Places: Essays in Honour of Michael Aston - Hardcover

9781842172513: People and Places: Essays in Honour of Michael Aston

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1842172514 ISBN 13: 9781842172513

Publisher: Oxbow Books, 2007

This volume of thirteen essays came out of a conference in December 2004 at Bristol University, to celebrate the career of Mick Aston on the occasion of his retirement. They reflect his enthusiasm for landscape and monastic archaeology in particular, and range in time from prehistory to the nineteenth century. Mick's ability to communicate archaeology to the masses has rightly seen him earn the title of 'The Ambassador of British Archaeology'.

Table of Contents

Foreword (Michael Cotsen)
Mick Aston – An Appreciation (Trevor Rowley)
Experiencing the prehistoric landscape of Somerset (Jodie Lewis)
Chasing the tail of hunter-gatherers in south western landscapes (Paula Gardiner)
Keeping the faith: The physical expression of differing church customs in early medieval Britain (Teresa Hall)
Anonymous thegns in the landscape of Wessex 900-1066 (Michael Cotsen)
Strategy, symbolism and the downright unusual: The archaeology of three Somerset castles (Stuart Prior)
The Premonstratensian Canons of south-western France: A preliminary survey (James Bond)
Angevin Lordship and Colonial Romanesque in Ireland (Tadhg O'Keefe)
The peripatetic life of the medieval bishops: The travels of Salisbury and Bath and Wells (Naomi Payne)
An aristocratic mausoleum at Grosbot Abbey (Poitou-Charente, France) (Mark Horton and Katherine Robson-Brown)
Not all archaeology is rubbish: The elusive life-histories of three artefacts from Shapwick, Somerset (Christopher Gerrard)
'Of naked Venuses and drunken Bacchanals': Tong Castle, Shropshire, and its landscapes (Paul Stamper)
Clear fountains and turbid: Archaeology's crisis of of communication (Nick Corcos)
Reconstructing past landscapes: What do we see? (Christopher Taylor)

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edited by Michael Costen

Review:

Overall this is an excellent collection of papers that are given considerable coherence through reflecting the landscape interests of Mick Aston. It is edited and illustrated to a high standard, and Oxbow is to be congratulated on its high production standards.' (Stephen Rippon Landscape History, Vol. 29, 2007)

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