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Title:

Landscapes of defence in early medieval Europe / edited by John Baker, Stuart Brookes and Andrew Reynolds.

Publisher:

Brepols,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xviii, 383 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Fortification--Europe--History--To 1500.
Military archaeology--Europe.
Landscape archaeology--Europe.
Fortification--England--History--To 1500.
Civil defense--England--History--To 1500.
Europe--History--History--To 1500.

Other Authors:

Baker, John T. (Medieval historian), editor.
Brookes, Stuart, editor.
Reynolds, Andrew (Andrew J.), editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Military stress, central power, and local response in the county of Castile in the tenth century / Julio Escalona -- Mapping Anglo-Saxon civil defence / Stuart Brookes -- The language of Anglo-Saxon defence / John Baker -- West Saxon fortifications in the ninth century : the perspective from the written sources / Barbara Yorke -- Wallingford : place, space, and defence / Neil Christie with Oliver Creighton and Matt Edgeworth -- Military and non-military functions of the Anglo-Saxon Burh, c. 878-978 / Gareth Williams -- Aspects of suburban settlement at early urban centres in England / Andrew Agate -- The costs and consequences of Anglo-Saxon civil defence, 878-1066 / Richard Abels -- A viking age landscape of defence in the low countries? : the ringwalburgen in the Dutch province of Zeeland / Letty Ten Harkel -- Frankish and slavic fortifications in Germany from the seventh to the eleventh centuries / Peter Ettel -- The viking age paradox : continuity and discontinuity of fortifications and defence works in Eastern Scandinavia / Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, Lena Holmquist, and Michael Olausson -- Defensive sites of the early middle ages in North-West Spain / Juan Antonio Quir©đs Castillo -- Military stress, central power, and local response in the county of Castile in the tenth century / Julio Escalona -- Index.

Series:

Studies in the early Middle Ages ; volume 28

ISBN:

2503529569
9782503529561

OCLC:

(OCoLC)858012069

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)