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Town Origins and Development in Early England, C.400-950 A.D.

Town Origins and Development in Early England, C.400-950 A.D.

Russo, Daniel G.

Hardcover

Series: Contributions to the Study of World History, Book 58

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0313300798
ISBN13: 9780313300790
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Apr 30 1998
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.18 Width: 6.46 Depth: 9.55
Language: English
Relying heavily on primary literary sources and archaeological scholarship, this study sheds new light on the development of towns in early England from late Roman to late Anglo-Saxon times. After a discussion of the problems of urban definition and typology, Russo examines the background of Romano-British urbanism in its prime and in its late Roman transformations. He demonstrates that late Roman towns were virtually abandoned before the Anglo-Saxon invasions. The emporia--new types of Anglo-Saxon towns--are analyzed on the basis of written and archaeological evidence and are compared with continental emporia. Finally, the origin and growth of the Anglo-Saxon burgh is considered from its eighth-century Mercian beginnings to the better known cases of King Alfred and his successors.

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