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Author |
: Stephen Rippon |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 472 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199645824 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199645825 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Fields of Britannia by : Stephen Rippon
It has long been recognized that the landscape of Britain is one of the 'richest historical records we possess', but just how old is it? The Fields of Britannia is the first book to explore how far the countryside of Roman Britain has survived in use through to the present day, shaping the character of our modern countryside. Commencing with a discussion of the differing views of what happened to the landscape at the end of Roman Britain, the volume then brings together the results from hundreds of archaeological excavations and palaeoenvironmental investigations in order to map patterns of land-use across Roman and early medieval Britain. In compiling such extensive data, the volume is able to reconstruct regional variations in Romano-British and early medieval land-use using pollen, animal bones, and charred cereal grains to demonstrate that agricultural regimes varied considerably and were heavily influenced by underlying geology. We are shown that, in the fifth and sixth centuries, there was a shift away from intensive farming but very few areas of the landscape were abandoned completely. What is revealed is a surprising degree of continuity: the Roman Empire may have collapsed, but British farmers carried on regardless, and the result is that now, across large parts of Britain, many of these Roman field systems are still in use.
Author |
: Daniel Duckworth |
Publisher |
: Austin Macauley Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 247 |
Release |
: 2024-07-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781035870615 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1035870614 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Fields of Britannia : The Darkness Before the Dawn by : Daniel Duckworth
It’s the year 367 AD, and the Roman military presence in quiet Brittania has dwindled to a mere few thousand legionaries made up of green recruits and tired veterans, with the mightiest of the legions having been pulled out of the province to fight in the gigantic power struggles for the Imperial throne, as Emperors rise and fall with astonishing speed. Not unnoticed by the barbarian tribes beyond Hadrian’s wall and across the Irish sea, or by the fast-growing Saxon presence beyond the Rhine, the enemies of Rome begin to make plans to bring fire and blood to Britannia, and remove the Roman presence from the island for good... In a story that will take you across England from the coast of Dover to the very edge of the Roman Empire, our heroes will be beset by enemies on all sides and have to fight against despair, overwhelming odds and their own prejudices in order to pull together and survive the onslaught.
Author |
: David Hall |
Publisher |
: Medieval History and Archaeolo |
Total Pages |
: 396 |
Release |
: 2014-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198702955 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198702957 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Open Fields of England by : David Hall
The first study to describe 100 years of pre-enclosure agricultural systems throughout England from one of the foremost authorities on medieval field systems.
Author |
: Osgood Field |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 178 |
Release |
: 1895 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:HX4XSW |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (SW Downloads) |
Synopsis The Fields of Sowerby Near Halifax, England, and of Flushing, New York by : Osgood Field
Author |
: Nic Fields |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 97 |
Release |
: 2020-09-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472842084 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472842081 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Britannia AD 43 by : Nic Fields
For the Romans, Britannia lay beyond the comfortable confines of the Mediterranean world around which classical civilisation had flourished. Britannia was felt to be at the outermost edge of the world itself, lending the island an air of dangerous mystique. To the soldiers crossing the Oceanus Britannicus in the late summer of AD 43, the prospect of invading an island believed to be on its periphery must have meant a mixture of panic and promise. These men were part of a formidable army of four veteran legions (II Augusta, VIIII Hispana, XIIII Gemina, XX Valeria), which had been assembled under the overall command of Aulus Plautius Silvanus. Under him were, significantly, first-rate legionary commanders, including the future emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus. With the auxiliary units, the total invasion force probably mounted to around 40,000 men, but having assembled at Gessoriacum (Boulogne) they refused to embark. Eventually, the mutinous atmosphere was dispelled, and the invasion fleet sailed in three contingents. So, ninety-seven years after Caius Iulius Caesar, the Roman army landed in south-eastern Britannia. After a brisk summer campaign, a province was established behind a frontier zone running from what is now Lyme Bay on the Dorset coast to the Humber estuary. Though the territory overrun during the first campaign season was undoubtedly small, it laid the foundations for the Roman conquest which would soon begin to sweep across Britannia. In this highly illustrated and detailed title, Nic Fields tells the full story of the invasion which established the Romans in Britain, explaining how and why the initial Claudian invasion succeeded and what this meant for the future of Britain.
Author |
: Geological Survey of Canada |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 570 |
Release |
: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105008208022 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Summary Report of the Geological Survey Department ... by : Geological Survey of Canada
1901 is accompanied by atlas of maps.
Author |
: Geological Survey of Canada |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 294 |
Release |
: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000137989921 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Summary Report of the Department of Mines, Geological Survey for the Calendar Year ... by : Geological Survey of Canada
Author |
: Canada. Parliament |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1212 |
Release |
: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: CHI:78134197 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada by : Canada. Parliament
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
Author |
: Geological Survey of Canada |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 478 |
Release |
: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: IOWA:31858045045279 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Summary Report of the Geological Survey, Department of Mines for the Calendar Year ... by : Geological Survey of Canada
Author |
: Nic Fields |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 97 |
Release |
: 2020-09-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472842053 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472842057 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Britannia AD 43 by : Nic Fields
For the Romans, Britannia lay beyond the comfortable confines of the Mediterranean world around which classical civilisation had flourished. Britannia was felt to be at the outermost edge of the world itself, lending the island an air of dangerous mystique. To the soldiers crossing the Oceanus Britannicus in the late summer of AD 43, the prospect of invading an island believed to be on its periphery must have meant a mixture of panic and promise. These men were part of a formidable army of four veteran legions (II Augusta, VIIII Hispana, XIIII Gemina, XX Valeria), which had been assembled under the overall command of Aulus Plautius Silvanus. Under him were, significantly, first-rate legionary commanders, including the future emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus. With the auxiliary units, the total invasion force probably mounted to around 40,000 men, but having assembled at Gessoriacum (Boulogne) they refused to embark. Eventually, the mutinous atmosphere was dispelled, and the invasion fleet sailed in three contingents. So, ninety-seven years after Caius Iulius Caesar, the Roman army landed in south-eastern Britannia. After a brisk summer campaign, a province was established behind a frontier zone running from what is now Lyme Bay on the Dorset coast to the Humber estuary. Though the territory overrun during the first campaign season was undoubtedly small, it laid the foundations for the Roman conquest which would soon begin to sweep across Britannia. In this highly illustrated and detailed title, Nic Fields tells the full story of the invasion which established the Romans in Britain, explaining how and why the initial Claudian invasion succeeded and what this meant for the future of Britain.