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Making a Christian Landscape

The Countryside in Early-Medieval Cornwall, Devon and Wessex

  • Paperback
  • 200 pages
  • Publisher: University of Exeter Press
  • 17.3 x 24.3 x 1.5 cm

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This book presents a new interpretation of the development of early medieval landscapes. It stresses the importance of political and religious ideology in both the 'Celtic' west (especially Cornwall) and the 'Anglo-Saxon' east (especially the Wessex counties of Devon, Somerset and Wiltshire). Using innovative new research methods, and making expert use of archaeology, placename evidence, historical sources and land-use patterns, it challenges previous work on the subject by suggesting that the two regions have much in common. Its central argument is that Christian ideology played a key role in the formation of the early medieval landscape in south-west Britain and western Europe generally. This took the form of a reorientation away from a dispersed pattern of ritual sites in favour of important religious centres in lowland locations, which became the principal focuses of a range of economic and social as well as religious activities.
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  • Author

    Prof. Sam Turner

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    University of Exeter Press

  • Published

    July 2006

  • Weight

    468g

  • Page Count

    200

  • Dimensions

    17.3 x 24.3 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9780859897853

  • ISBN-10

    0859897850

  • Eden Code

    1197072

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