Title: Interpreting Transformations of People and Landscapes in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Description: In this volume, deriving from two conferences held in Rome and Leicester in 2016, nineteen leading European archaeologists discuss and interpret the complex evolution of landscapes - both urban and rural - across Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (c. AD 300-700). The geographical coverage extends from Italy to the Mediterranean West through to the Rhine frontier and onto Hadrian's Wall. Core are questions of impacts due to the socio-political, religious, military and economic transformations affecting provinces, territories and kingdoms across these often turbulent centuries: how did townscapes change and at what rate? What were the fates of villas? When do post-classical landscapes emerge and in what form? To what degree did Europe become an insecure, defended landscape? In what ways did people - cityfolk, farmers, nobility, churchmen, merchants - adapt? Do the elite remain visible and how prominent is the Church? Where and how do we see culture change through the arrival of new groups or new ideas? Do burials form a clear guide to the changing world? And underlying much of the discussion is a consideration of the nature and quality of our source material.
Subjects: Civilization, ancient, Civilization, classical, Archaeology, Geography, ancient, Europe, social conditions, Ancient Civilization, Congresses, Classical Civilization, Landscape archaeology, Ancient Geography, Civilisation ancienne, Congrès, Archéologie du paysage, Géographie ancienne, HISTORY, Western, HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia, Antiquities, Kulturwandel, Landschaftsentwicklung, Siedlungsarchäologie, Siedlungsgang, Sozialer Wandel