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Towns and topography : essays in memory of David H. Hill /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hill, David, 1937 July 15- (honouree.), Owen-Crocker, Gale R. (Editor), Thompson, Susan D. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2014.
Subjects:
Great Britain > History > Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
Cities and towns, Medieval > England > History.
Anglo-Saxons > Social life and customs.
Anglo-Saxons > Social conditions.
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon.
Table of Contents:
  • David Hill
  • David Henry Hill / Nicholas J. Higham
  • The published work of David Hill / compiled by Margaret Worthington Hill and edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker with the assistance of Celeste Andrews
  • PART II. TOWNS
  • Quentovic / Margaret Worthington Hill
  • Putting lava on the map / Jonathan Parkhouse
  • Hemming's crosses / Michael Hare
  • Control of London in the seventh century / Damian Tyler
  • London : archaeological evidence for the events of 886 and its aftermath / David Beard
  • The late Saxon burhs of Somerset : a review / Jeremy Haslam
  • The mints of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian England, 871-1066 / Martin Allen
  • 'Sudden wonder' : urban perspectives in late Anglo-Saxon literature / Mark Atherton
  • PART III. TOPOGRAPHY
  • Bursting the bounds of the Danelaw / Gillian Fellows-Jensen
  • A hill by any other name : onomastic alternatives in the Anglo-Saxon bounds of Taunton, Somerset / Alexander R. Rumble
  • The early medieval dykes of Britain / Erik Grigg
  • Reflections upon the Anglo-Saxon landscape and settlement of the Vale of Pickering, Yorkshire / Dominic Powlesland
  • 'Ploughing old furrows afresh' : the importance of the practical in the study of the Anglo-Saxon world / Christopher Grocock
  • The late Anglo-Saxon landscape of western Cheshire : open field, ploughs and the manor within the dykes / N.J. Higham
  • Mapping late Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and documents / Donald Scragg
  • Mapping the Anglo-Saxon past / Simon Keynes.