Roman infrastructure in Early Medieval Britain : the adaptations of the past in text and stone

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Roman infrastructure in Early Medieval Britain : the adaptations of the past in text and stone

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the adaptations of the past in text and stone

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Mateusz Fafinski

Creator

• Fafinski, Mateusz

Subject

• Great Britain -- Antiquities, Roman
• Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485
• Romans -- Great Britain

Language

eng

Summary

Early Medieval Britain is more Roman than we think. The Roman Empire left vast infrastructural resources on the island. These resources lay buried not only in dirt and soil, but also in texts, laws, chronicles - even charters, churches, and landscapes. This book uncovers them and shows how they shaped Early Medieval Britain. Infrastructure, material and symbolic, can work in ways that are not immediately obvious and exert an influence long after the builders have gone. Infrastructure can also rest dormant and be reactivated with a changed function, role and appearance. This is not a simple story of continuity and discontinuity: it is a story of transformation, of how the Roman infrastructural past was used and re-used, and also how it influenced the later societies of Britain.--

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• Early medieval North Atlantic

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non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• The early medieval North Atlantic
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks