03223nam 2200649 450 991081648140332120200520144314.01-78570-236-X(CKB)3710000000736590(SSID)ssj0001695320(PQKBManifestationID)16432698(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001695320(PQKBWorkID)14972583(PQKB)21376738(Au-PeEL)EBL4572875(CaPaEBR)ebr11387626(CaONFJC)MIL963251(OCoLC)948670391(MiAaPQ)EBC4572875(EXLCZ)99371000000073659020160415d2016 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrFortified settlements in early medieval Europe defended communities of the 8th-10th centuries /edited by Neil Christie & Hajnalka HeroldOxford ;Philadelphia :Oxbow Books,2016.1 online resource (510 pages) illustrations, mapsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-78570-235-1 Includes bibliographical references."Twenty-three contributions by leading archaeologists from across Europe explore the varied forms, functions and significances of fortified settlements in the 8th to 10th centuries AD. These could be sites of strongly martial nature, upland retreats, monastic enclosures, rural seats, island bases, or urban nuclei. But they were all expressions of control--of states, frontiers, lands, materials, communities--and ones defined by walls, ramparts or enclosing banks. Papers run from Irish cashels to Welsh and Pictish strongholds, Saxon burhs, Viking fortresses, Byzantine castra, Carolingian creations, Venetian barricades, Slavic strongholds, and Bulgarian central places, and coverage extends fully from north-west Europe, to central Europe, the northern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Strongly informed by recent fieldwork and excavations, but drawing also where available on the documentary record, this important collection provides fully up-to-date reviews and analyses of the archaeologies of the distinctive settlement forms that characterised Europe in the Early Middle Ages"--From publisher's website.Human settlementsEuropeHistoryTo 1500FortificationEuropeHistoryTo 1500Community lifeEuropeHistoryTo 1500Excavations (Archaeology)EuropeArchaeology, MedievalEuropeSocial archaeologyEuropeEuropeAntiquitiesEuropeDefensesHistoryHuman settlementsHistoryFortificationHistoryCommunity lifeHistoryExcavations (Archaeology)Archaeology, MedievalSocial archaeology940.1/2Christie NeilHerold HajnalkaMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816481403321Fortified settlements in early medieval Europe3955681UNINA