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  • Signals of Belief in Early England

    Anglo-Saxon Paganism Revisited

    by Alex Sanmark, Sarah Semple ...
    This volume will throw new light on the intellect of the earliest English - the way they thought, the way they viewed the world, and the way they viewed worlds other than this. Previous understanding of the topic, well rooted in the ideas of its time, regarded the English as adherents of two consecutive religions: Paganism governed the settlers of the 4th-6th century, but was superseded in the 7th ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 14

    Early Medieval Mortuary Practices

    by Sarah Semple, Howard Williams ...
    Series Book 14 - Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History
    Volume 14 of the Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History series is dedicated to the archaeology of early medieval death, burial and commemoration. Incorporating studies focusing upon Anglo-Saxon England as well as research encompassing western Britain, Continental Europe and Scandinavia, this volume originated as the proceedings of a two-day conference held at the University of Exeter in ... Read more

    $43.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age

    Edited by Professor Julie Lund, Dr Sarah Semple ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400, examining the creation, use and understanding of human-made objects and their consequences and impacts. The power and agency of objects significantly evolved over this time. Exploring objects and artefacts within art, technology, and everyday life, the volume challenges our understanding of both life worlds and object ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England

    Religion, Ritual, and Rulership in the Landscape

    by Sarah Semple ...
    Series series Medieval History and Archaeology
    Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England represents an unparalleled exploration of the place of prehistoric monuments in the Anglo-Saxon psyche, and examines how Anglo-Saxon communities perceived and used these monuments during the period AD 400-1100. Sarah Semple employs archaeological, historical, art historical, and literary sources to study the variety of ways in which the early ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Negotiating the North

    Meeting-Places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea Zone

    by Sarah Semple, Alexandra Sanmark, Frode Iversen, Natascha Mehler ...
    Series series The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs
    This book brings together the cumulative results of a three-year project focused on the assemblies and administrative systems of Scandinavia, Britain, and the North Atlantic islands in the 1st and 2nd millennia AD. In this volume we integrate a wide range of historical, cartographic, archaeological, field-based, and onomastic data pertaining to early medieval and medieval administrative practices, ... Read more

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  • Northwest Europe in the Early Middle Ages, c.AD 600–1150

    A Comparative Archaeology

    by Christopher Loveluck ...
    Christopher Loveluck's study explores the transformation of Northwest Europe (primarily Britain, France and Belgium) from the era of the first post-Roman 'European Union' under the Carolingian Frankish kings to the so-called 'feudal' age, between c.AD 600 and 1150. During these centuries radical changes occurred in the organisation of the rural world. Towns and complex communities of artisans and ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Ruin of Roman Britain

    An Archaeological Perspective

    by James Gerrard ...
    How did Roman Britain end? This new study draws on fresh archaeological discoveries to argue that the end of Roman Britain was not the product of either a violent cataclysm or an economic collapse. Instead, the structure of late antique society, based on the civilian ideology of paideia, was forced to change by the disappearance of the Roman state. By the fifth century elite power had shifted to ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Vikings

    by Neil Price, Ben Raffield ...
    Series series Peoples of the Ancient World
    The Vikings provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the complex world of the early medieval Scandinavians.In the space of less than 300 years, from the mid-eighth to the mid-eleventh centuries CE, people from what are now Norway, Sweden, and Denmark left their homelands in unprecedented numbers to travel across the Eurasian world. Over the last half-century, archaeology and its ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Early European Castles

    Aristocracy and Authority, AD 800-1200

    by Oliver H. Creighton ...
    Series series Debates in Archaeology
    Medieval castles were, alongside the great cathedrals, the most recognisable buildings of the medieval world. Closely associated with concepts of justice, lordship and authority as well as military might, castles came to encapsulate the period's very essence.Looking at above and below-ground evidence and examining a wide variety of sites - from towering donjons to earth and timber castles - in ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Femina

    A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

    by Janina Ramirez ...
    **THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 CUNDIL HISTORY PRIZEA "Next Big Idea Book Club" Must ReadA groundbreaking reappraisal of medieval femininity, revealing why women have been written out of history and why it matters**The Middle Ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings, saints and kings; a patriarchal society that oppressed and excluded women. But when we dig a little ... Read more

    $21.49 USD

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  • The Celts

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Barry Cunliffe ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Savage and bloodthirsty, or civilized and peaceable? The Celts have long been a subject of enormous fascination, speculation, and misunderstanding. From the ancient Romans to the present day, their real nature has been obscured by a tangled web of preconceived ideas and stereotypes. Barry Cunliffe seeks to reveal this fascinating people for the first time, using an impressive range of evidence, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Vikings

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Julian D. Richards ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, repeatedly plundering the British Isles and the North Atlantic throughout the early Middle Ages. Yet Vikings were also traders, settlers, and farmers, with a complex artistic and linguistic culture, whose expansion overseas led them to cross the Atlantic for the first time in European history. Highlighting the latest archaeological ... Read more

    $7.99 USD