The Architecture of the Anglo-Saxons
Author | : Eric Fernie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Architecture, Anglo-Saxon |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Eric Fernie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Architecture, Anglo-Saxon |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Blair |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400889901 |
A radical rethinking of the Anglo-Saxon world that draws on the latest archaeological discoveries This beautifully illustrated book draws on the latest archaeological discoveries to present a radical reappraisal of the Anglo-Saxon 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 Anglo-Saxon England demonstrates how hundreds of recent excavations enable us to grasp for the first time how regionally diverse the built environment of the Anglo-Saxons 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 Anglo-Saxon England explores how the natural landscape was modified to accommodate human activity, and how many settlements--secular and religious—were laid out with geometrical precision by specialist surveyors. The book also shows how the Anglo-Saxon 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.
Author | : Harold MacCarter Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Chris Webster |
Publisher | : Folens Limited |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781852765309 |
Author | : Howard M. Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Blair |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2021-10-12 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0691228426 |
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize A radical rethinking of the Anglo-Saxon world that draws on the latest archaeological discoveries This beautifully illustrated book draws on the latest archaeological discoveries to present a radical reappraisal of the Anglo-Saxon 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 Anglo-Saxon England demonstrates how hundreds of recent excavations enable us to grasp for the first time how regionally diverse the built environment of the Anglo-Saxons 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 Anglo-Saxon England explores how the natural landscape was modified to accommodate human activity, and how many settlements--secular and religious—were laid out with geometrical precision by specialist surveyors. The book also shows how the Anglo-Saxon 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.
Author | : Mary Kerr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : H. M. Taylor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1254 |
Release | : 2011-09-22 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781107691469 |
This work is a complete catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon fabric surviving in the churches of England. Volumes I and II were originally published in hardback in 1965, with paperback editions appearing alongside the newly commissioned Volume III in the 1980s. Together, the three volumes provide an invaluable resource for the study of Anglo-Saxon architecture. Volume I, a short introduction, is a survey of pre-Conquest architectural features and the reasons for designating them as characteristically Anglo-Saxon. Volume II is the catalogue. In it each church is described in turn, in alphabetical order of parish names. Finally, the 1984 third volume was a landmark text in its field, taking the churches of Volumes I and II as its starting point, and establishing the logical basis for believing that churches do contain pre-Norman fabric. This volume also provides a comprehensive index and important amendments to the first two volumes.
Author | : H.M. Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1965-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Harold Mc Carter Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : |
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