Territoriality and the Early Medieval Landscape

Stephen Rippon is Professor of Landscape Archaeology at the University of Exeter, and current President of the Society for Medieval Archaeology.

• PART I: BACKGROUNDChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Territoriality in Early Medieval England Chapter 3 Reconstructing Early Medieval Folk Territories PART II: THE EARLY FOLK TERRITORIESChapter 4 From Early Folk Territory to Domesday Vills: The Rochford Peninsula Chapter 5 Immigration and Integration in the Central Thameside Districts: The Fen District and Havering Chapter 6 The Province of the Middle Saxons Chapter 7 Fringes of the Kingdom: The Eastern Coastal Districts and the Landscape Context of Anglo-Saxon Colonisation Chapter 8 A British Domain: The Central Claylands, Place-names, Early Medieval Territorial Identity, and the -ingas Question Chapter 9 Another British Domain: The Northern Claylands Chapter 10 And Another British Domain: The Western Districts, and Romano-British Antecedents of Early Medieval Central Places Chapter 11 Beyond the Northern Frontier PART III: DISCUSSION AND ANALYSISChapter 12 Agriculture and Resource ManagementChapter 13 Conclusions Appendices1. Domesday population densities across the 'Rochford Peninsula' early folk territory 2. Sites used in the analysis of animal bone assemblages3. Sites used in the analysis of charred cereal assemblages BibliographyIndex

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