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Shortlisted for the Wolfson History PrizeA radical rethinking of the AngloSaxon world that draws on the latest archaeological discoveriesThis beautifully illustrated book draws on the latest archaeological discoveries to present a radical reappraisal of the AngloSaxon built environment and its inhabitants. John Blair, one of the world's leading experts on this transformative era in England's early history, explains the origins of towns, manor houses, and castles in a completely new way, and sheds new light on the important functions of buildings and settlements in shaping people's lives during the age of the Venerable Bede and King Alfred.Building AngloSaxon England demonstrates how hundreds of recent excavations enable us to grasp for the first time how regionally diverse the built environment of the AngloSaxons truly was. Blair identifies a zone of eastern England with access to the North Sea whose economy, prosperity, and timber buildings had more in common with the Low Countries and Scandinavia than the rest of England. The origins of villages and their field systems emerge with a new clarity, as does the royal administrative organization of the kingdom of Mercia, which dominated central England for two centuries.Featuring a wealth of color illustrations throughout, Building AngloSaxon England explores how the natural landscape was modified to accommodate human activity, and how many settlementssecular and religiouswere laid out with geometrical precision by specialist surveyors. The book also shows how the AngloSaxon love of elegant and intricate decoration is reflected in the construction of the living environment, which in some ways was more sophisticated than it would become after the Norman Conquest.
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