Roman Infrastructure in Early Medieval Britain: The Adaptations of the Past in Text and Stone

Early Medieval Britain is more Roman than we think. The Roman Empire left vast infrastructural resources on the island. These resources lay buried not only in dirt and soil, but also in texts, laws, chronicles - even charters, churches, and landscapes. This book uncovers them and shows how they shap...

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Main Author: Fafinski, Mateusz (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2021]
Series:The Early Medieval North Atlantic 10
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Summary:Early Medieval Britain is more Roman than we think. The Roman Empire left vast infrastructural resources on the island. These resources lay buried not only in dirt and soil, but also in texts, laws, chronicles - even charters, churches, and landscapes. This book uncovers them and shows how they shaped Early Medieval Britain. Infrastructure, material and symbolic, can work in ways that are not immediately obvious and exert an influence long after the builders have gone. Infrastructure can also rest dormant and be reactivated with a changed function, role and appearance. This is not a simple story of continuity and discontinuity: it is a story of transformation, of how the Roman infrastructural past was used and re-used, and also how it influenced the later societies of Britain
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Apr 2021)
Physical Description:1 online resource (240 pages)
ISBN:9789048551972
DOI:10.1515/9789048551972

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