Settlement Change Across Medieval Europe: Old Paradigms and New Vistas

ISBN-13: 9789088908064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 446 str.

Niall Brady; Claudia Theune

Opis

Innovations, transmissions and transformations had profound spatial, economic and social impacts on the environments, landscapes and habitats evident at micro- and macro-levels. This volume explores how these changes affected how land was worked, how it was organized, and the nature of buildings and rural complexes.

O autorze

Dr Niall Brady is the founding director of the Archaeological Diving Company, Ireland's premier maritime archaeological consultancy, and between 2002 and 2010 he was project director of the Discovery Programme's Medieval Rural Settlement Project. Main research fields: landscape archaeology, medieval settlement, agrarian economy and technology, maritime archaeology, industrial archaeology. Prof. Dr. Claudia Theune is Professor of Historical Archaeology at the University of Vienna with a focus on contemporary archaeology, on medieval and post-medieval marginal landscapes and on early medieval funeral and social archaeology. Since 2007 she is Full Professor of Historical Archaeology at the University of Vienna, Department of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology.