Continuity Colonization Evolution Kentish Settlement by Alan Everitt (3 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 1st 1986. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. Communities, Contexts and Cultures: Leicester Studies in English Local History. In this study of the evolution of Kentish settlement from the end of the Romano-British period and the coming of the 'English' down to the thirteenth or fourteenth century, the author indicates places and neighbourhoods where continuity of occupation with the Roman era seems likely; pre-English settlement as such is not discussed except where there seems reason to suspect that occupation was indeed continuous. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxi and 426 pages. Top and tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Minor foxing to text block. Contents otherwise clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Continuity and Colonization: The Evolution of Kentish Settlement is a seminal academic study by Alan Everitt, published in 1986 by Leicester University Press. The work is a cornerstone of English local history, specifically focusing on how the landscape and social structures of Kent evolved from the late Romano-British period through to the 14th century.Everitta?Ts study challenges and refines traditional views on the Dark Ages and the transition from Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England: The Continuity Debate: Everitt explores the extent to which Romano-British settlement patterns persisted into the Anglo-Saxon era. While he acknowledges.…

xxi, 426 p. Maps. A very good copy in the publisher's binding and dustwrapper. The summation of many years of research in landscape history by the Author. ISBN 0718512553.