1st Edition

The Archaeology of the 11th Century Continuities and Transformations

Edited By Dawn M Hadley, Christopher Dyer Copyright 2017
326 Pages
by Routledge

342 Pages
by Routledge

342 Pages
by Routledge

The Archaeology of the 11th Century addresses many key questions surrounding this formative period of English history and considers conditions before 1066 and how these changed. The impact of the Conquest of England by the Normans is the central focus of the book, which not only assesses the destruction and upheaval caused by the invading forces, but also examines how the Normans... Read more

1 Introduction
D M Hadley and C C Dyer

2 The Norman Conquest and its impact on late Anglo-Saxon towns
Letty ten Harkel

 3 The Norman Conquest and its influences on urban landscapes
Keith D Lilley

4 Conquest, colonisation and the countryside: archaeology and the mid-11th- to mid-12th-century rural landscape
Oliver Creighton and Stephen Rippon
  
 5 Manorial farmsteads and the expression of lordship before and after the Norman Conquest
Mark Gardiner

 6 Anglo-Saxon towers of lordship and the origins of the castle in England
 Michael G Shapland

 7 Scars on the townscape: urban castles in Saxo-Norman England
 Michael Fradley


 8 Seeking ‘Norman burials’, evidence for continuity and change in funerary practice following the Norman Conquest
 Elizabeth Craig-Atkins

 9 Charity and conquest: leprosaria in early Norman England
 Simon Roffey

 10 Archaeology and archiepiscopal reform. Greater churches in York diocese in the 11th century
 Paul Everson and David Stocker

 11 Rewriting the narrative: regional dimensions of the Norman Conquest
 Aleksandra McClain

 12 The Bayeux Tapestry: window to a world of continuity and change
 Michael Lewis

 13 Cuisine and conquest: interdisciplinary perspectives on food, continuity and change in 11th-century England and beyond
Ben Jervis, Fiona Whelan and Alexandra Livarda

 14 Tradition and innovation: lead-alloy brooches and urban identities in the 11th century
 Rosie Weetch

 15 History, archaeology and the Norman Conquest
Hugh M Thomas

Biography

Dawn M Hadley is Head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Christopher Dyer is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Leicester, UK.