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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Source Citation Conventions; Abbreviations; PART I: Contexts; Chapter 1: Exploring Anglo-Saxon Landscapes; History, Geography, and Place Names; The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon Settlements before the 1990s; Gathering Knowledge: Academic Research, Contract Archaeology, and the Present Project; Archaeology, History, Ethnography, and Reality; The Scope and Themes of the Present Study; Chapter 2: Defining Anglo-Saxon Landscapes; Geography, Environment, and Older Human Landscapes
Regional Diversity in Settlement and Material CultureLooking Westward: British, Irish, and Pictish Contexts for English Building Culture; Looking Eastward: Scandinavian, Frisian, and Frankish Contexts for English Building Culture; Self-Shaping; Visible and Invisible Building Cultures: What Did Houses Really Look Like?; In the Glare of the Headlamps: Pottery, Wooden Vessels, and the Distortions of Survival; Order in the Built Environment: Monuments, Planning, and Linear Modules; A Regional Framework for This Book; A Chronological Framework for This Book
Chapter 3: Landscapes of the Mind: The Built Environment in the Anglo-Saxon ConsciousnessHouses for Immortals: Unseen Residents in a Conceptual Landscape; Houses for the Living: Life Cycles in Timber and the Transience of Earthly Dwellings; Living with the Supernatural: Ritual Space in the Homestead; Houses for Eternity: Monumentalising the Sacred in the Landscape; A Mediterranean Religion in a Northern World: Two Cultures or One?; Earth Moving and Ideology; PART II: The First Transformation, circa 600â#x80;#x93;700; Chapter 4: Landscapes of Power and Wealth
Centres and Peripheries: Royal Residence and RecreationThe Mobile Environment of Royal Life; The Background and Context of Seventh-Century Elite Sites; The Great Hall Complexes: A Mode of Ostentatious Display; The Great Hall Complexes: Local Territorial Contexts; The Monasticisation of Royal Sites and the Era of Monastic Supremacy; Retrospect: Gain and Loss in an Age of Transformations; Chapter 5: The Construction of Settlement: Rural and Commercial Spaces; â#x80;#x98;Wandering Settlementâ#x80;#x99; or â#x80;#x98;Static Developmentâ#x80;#x99;? Form and Regionality in English Settlements before 650
Circular Space: Concentrically Defined Zones and Radial Planning in the Insular TraditionRectilinear Space: Gromatic Surveying and Grid-Planning; The Seventh-Century Settlement Revolution: Organisation and Enclosure; Grid-Planning in East Midland Settlements: The Diffusion of a Monastic Mode?; Outside the Eastern Zone; Urbanism in a Nonurban World: Holy Cities and Commercial Cities; The Major Emporia before 700; Why Did So Much Change in the Seventh Century?; PART III: Consolidation, circa 700â#x80;#x93;920; Chapter 6: Landscape Organisation and Economy in the Mercian Age; Mercian Geopolitics
Royal Ambitions and Monastic Assets: Compromise, Reform, and Predation in the Age of King Ã#x86;thelbald
Regional Diversity in Settlement and Material CultureLooking Westward: British, Irish, and Pictish Contexts for English Building Culture; Looking Eastward: Scandinavian, Frisian, and Frankish Contexts for English Building Culture; Self-Shaping; Visible and Invisible Building Cultures: What Did Houses Really Look Like?; In the Glare of the Headlamps: Pottery, Wooden Vessels, and the Distortions of Survival; Order in the Built Environment: Monuments, Planning, and Linear Modules; A Regional Framework for This Book; A Chronological Framework for This Book
Chapter 3: Landscapes of the Mind: The Built Environment in the Anglo-Saxon ConsciousnessHouses for Immortals: Unseen Residents in a Conceptual Landscape; Houses for the Living: Life Cycles in Timber and the Transience of Earthly Dwellings; Living with the Supernatural: Ritual Space in the Homestead; Houses for Eternity: Monumentalising the Sacred in the Landscape; A Mediterranean Religion in a Northern World: Two Cultures or One?; Earth Moving and Ideology; PART II: The First Transformation, circa 600â#x80;#x93;700; Chapter 4: Landscapes of Power and Wealth
Centres and Peripheries: Royal Residence and RecreationThe Mobile Environment of Royal Life; The Background and Context of Seventh-Century Elite Sites; The Great Hall Complexes: A Mode of Ostentatious Display; The Great Hall Complexes: Local Territorial Contexts; The Monasticisation of Royal Sites and the Era of Monastic Supremacy; Retrospect: Gain and Loss in an Age of Transformations; Chapter 5: The Construction of Settlement: Rural and Commercial Spaces; â#x80;#x98;Wandering Settlementâ#x80;#x99; or â#x80;#x98;Static Developmentâ#x80;#x99;? Form and Regionality in English Settlements before 650
Circular Space: Concentrically Defined Zones and Radial Planning in the Insular TraditionRectilinear Space: Gromatic Surveying and Grid-Planning; The Seventh-Century Settlement Revolution: Organisation and Enclosure; Grid-Planning in East Midland Settlements: The Diffusion of a Monastic Mode?; Outside the Eastern Zone; Urbanism in a Nonurban World: Holy Cities and Commercial Cities; The Major Emporia before 700; Why Did So Much Change in the Seventh Century?; PART III: Consolidation, circa 700â#x80;#x93;920; Chapter 6: Landscape Organisation and Economy in the Mercian Age; Mercian Geopolitics
Royal Ambitions and Monastic Assets: Compromise, Reform, and Predation in the Age of King Ã#x86;thelbald