The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-0-8122-5244-6 (ISBN)
The standard explanation for the emergence of the new-style material culture found in lowland Britain by the last quarter of the fifth century is that foreign objects were brought in by "Anglo-Saxon" settlers. Marshalling a wealth of archaeological evidence, Robin Fleming argues instead that not only Continental immigrants, but also the people whose ancestors had long lived in Britain built this new material world together from the ashes of the old, forging an identity that their descendants would eventually come to think of as English. As with most identities, she cautions, this was one rooted in neither birth nor blood, but historically constructed, and advanced and maintained over the generations by the shared material culture and practices that developed during and after Rome's withdrawal from Britain.
Robin Fleming is Professor of History at Boston College, a Fellow of the London Society of Antiquaries, and the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant. She is author of Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise of the Middle Ages, 400-1070, among other works.
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
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | 22 b/w |
Verlagsort | Pennsylvania |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8122-5244-6 / 0812252446 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8122-5244-6 / 9780812252446 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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