Anglo-Saxon Towers of Lordship

ISBN-13: 9780198809463 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 288 str.

Michael G. Shapland

Opis

A detailed study of the towers constructed by lords at their residences across England during the late tenth and eleventh centuries. Although these towers contained chapels, their role in the exercise of secular power mean that that they provide a unique opportunity to study standing aristocratic architecture from before the Norman Conquest.

Recenzje

Much of interest P.S. Barnwell, Ecclesiology Today

O autorze

Michael Shapland undertook an MA in the Archaeology of Buildings at the University of York in 2008, and completed his PhD on Anglo-Saxon tower-nave churches at UCL in 2012. He has worked for several commercial units across the UK, before joining UCL's field archaeology unit - Archaeology-South-East - as a specialist in historic buildings in 2013. His research interests lie in theoretical approaches to the archaeology of standing buildings, and elite power structures of early medieval England. He was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2018, and lives in Lewes, East Sussex.