‘For My Descendants and Myself, a Nice and Pleasant Abode’ – Agency, Micro-history and Built Environment

Göran Tagesson is Associate Professor in Historical Archaeology at Lund University and Project Leader at The Archaeologists, The National Historical Museums, Sweden. ; Per Cornell is Professor in Archaeology at the University of Gothenburg. ; Mark Gardiner is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Lincoln. ; Liz Thomas is a Research Fellow in The Beam and is also an Affiliate Researcher at the Institute for Cultural Practices, University of Manchester. ; Katherine Weikert is a Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval History at the University of Winchester.

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