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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Early medieval period"”.
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Palaeoecology of human impact in northwest England during the early medieval period: investigating ‘cultural decline’ in the Dark Ages
The period following the Roman withdrawal from England in AD 410 has long been considered a time of ‘cultural decline’, owing to the relative paucity of archaeological evidence relating to this time and the dismal state of affairs described by the Dark Age historians Gildas (c AD 540) and Bede (AD …
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Shetland and the trade of steatite goods in the North Atlantic region during the Viking and early medieval period
… in trade of steatite goods during the Viking and Early Medieval periods. Artefact assessment has highlighted distinctive steatite artefact types from Shetland, Norway and Greenland. This visual provenance technique allowed comprehensive assessment of imported steatite artefacts from the North …
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Mapping sculpture and power: symbolic wealth in early medieval Scotland, 6th-11th centuries AD
… stones. In studying the power structures of early medieval Scotland, both textual and archaeological evidence must be considered. Documentary evidence for Scotland is poor, but comparison can be made with Ireland, which has relatively rich textual evidence. The archaeological evidence of the …
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We Built this City on Rock and Romans: A geospatial comparison of Economy, Infrastructure, Settlement and Culture between Dorchester, Dorset, and Winchester, Hampshire, and their Environs during the Period 300AD- 700AD.
… of Rome by Alaric and his band of Goths - a period of economic collapse followed in Britain… Or did it? This project endeavoured to define the urban developments (or lack of) that took place over the period 300-700AD in the two Roman towns of Dorchester, Dorset and Winchester, Hampshire, from …
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Ars rhetorica et sacrae litterae: St. Patrick and the Art of Rhetoric in Early Medieval Briton and Ireland
… as well as the nature of rhetorical education in early medieval Britain and Ireland The literary significance of Patrick's extant writings, Epistola ad milites Corotici and Confessio, beyond their apparent historical value, has regularly been disputed by prominent scholars. Questions of the level …
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Craft activity and settlement in early medieval Ireland in the fifth to twelfth centuries AD: chronology and society
… and economic structures—over the course of the early medieval period (AD 400–1200) in Ireland are summarised and considered, focusing particularly on the period after c. AD 700 up to c. AD 1000. Through a data-driven analysis of radiocarbon dates, this thesis considers whether the process of …
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Taken to the grave. An archaeozoological approach assessing the role of animals as crematory offerings in first millennium AD Britain.
… but with a distinct change at the start of the Early Medieval period. The results from Brougham are particularly significant as they alter preconceived views on the utilisation of animals in Romano-British funerary practice. Cremation burials in first millennium AD Britain are shown to include …
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Pilgrims and strangers : the theological motivation of Irish Peregrinatio
… of their lives and the end of the world. These early Christians ascetics prove very influential to their Irish counterparts. In the same way, the Irish peregrini of the early medieval period also renounce their homeland and possessions and travel abroad, never to return to their former lives in …
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The return to hill forts in the Dark Ages: what can this tell us about post-Roman Britain?
After being abandoned for nearly 400 years, some of the ancient Iron Age hill forts were re-occupied and re-fortified in the later fifth and early sixth centuries. Interestingly, some ‘new’ hill forts were also erected at this time. I believed that a study of this phenomenon might shed light on …
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THE ROLE OF ROYAL POWER IN THE FORMATION OF AN ANGLO-SAXON STATE, CIRCA 400-900 AD
… of a state in Anglo-Saxon England from the period of Roman withdrawal from Britain in the early fifth century to the tenth century. It argues that the key factor in the development of the state was the increase in the power of kings during the period. While early kings in England were little …
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The archaeology of early medieval borderscapes: a case study of south-west Osraige
… role of borderlands and territorial divisions in early medieval Ireland (AD 400 - 1100), through a landscape-based case study of the southwest border of the regional kingdom of Osraige (mainly in modern-day Co. Kilkenny) with the larger overkingdom of Mumu (Munster). The study area incorporates …
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Skin and bone: the face in the archaeological imagination
… structure. The ‘starting point’ is the Neolithic period which has been associated with the notion of visuality with a reconstruction from the early Neolithic site of Annagh, Co. Limerick. The following layer of analysis appears with attention to intersubjectivity in the early medieval period with …
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‘Holyest Erth of England?’ Glastonbury Abbey: Saints, Sanctity and Pilgrimage
… will hear or read about Glastonbury during the medieval period: is that its abbey was a great centre of pilgrimage in England, along with Canterbury and Walsingham. Research concerning aspects of the abbey’s history and pilgrimage status is relatively scarce for such a venerable abbey, and this …
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Anglo-Saxon Medicine and Disease: A Semantic Approach
… texts available in Latin translation in the early medieval period, most notably for our present purposes Alexander of Tralles, but also Oribasius, Galen, pseudo-Galen and several Latin recensions of the works of Soranus of Ephesus, including the so-called Liber Esculapii and Liber Aurelii. …
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Rex Christus Ascendens: The Christological Cult of the Ascension in Anglo -Saxon England
… developments in Ascension theology of the early medieval period is the idea of Christ as king, which was intimately related to the doctrine of Christ's two natures and his role as priestly mediator between two realms. This thinking gains importance in Anglo-Saxon material from the time of …
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The Isle of Wight in the English landscape: Medieval and Post-Medieval rural settlement and land use.
… Isle of Wight land use and settlement from the early medieval period to the nineteenth century and is fully referenced to national frameworks. The thesis utilises documentary, cartographic and archaeological evidence. It employs the techniques of historic landscape characterisation (HLC), using …
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Whodunnit? Grave-robbery in early medieval northern and western Europe
… brings together all that is currently known of early medieval grave reopening in northern and western Europe. It investigates in detail an intensive outbreak of grave-robbery in 6th-7th century Kent. This is closely related to the same phenomenon in Merovingia: an example of the import of not …
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Latin Christian theological and historical perceptions of Islam : 1100-2000
… While it is primarily concerned with the period 1100-2000, a brief historical exposition of the European horizon prior to 1100 will also be required in order to provide the political context. Chapter one investigates the Latin European horizon prior to 1100 to illustrate the fractured …
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Pioneering new approaches to woodland ecology and human activity in medieval Ireland (c.500-1550AD): an investigation using archaeological charcoal
… influenced wood selection strategies during the medieval period in Ireland using the archaeological charcoal record. It examined the functional and cultural factors that influenced wood selection and wood use during a period of dynamic social, economic and political change and provided valuable …
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DISH Everywhere: Study of the Pathogenesis of Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis and of its Prevalence in England and Catalonia from the Roman to the Post-Medieval Time Period
… isolated vertical lesions representing the early stages of DISH (‘early DISH’) were identified. Both sample sets showed that the presence of extra-spinal manifestations varies significantly between individuals and that discarthrosis and DISH can co-exist in the same individual. In all …
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