Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Europe: Defended Communities of the 8th-10th Centuries

by Neil Christie and Hajnalka Herold

Twenty-three contributions by leading archaeologists from across Europe explore the varied forms, functions and significances of fortified settlements in the 8th to 10th centuries AD. These could be sites of strongly martial nature, upland retreats, monastic enclosures, rural seats, island bases, or urban nuclei. But they were all expressions of control - of states, frontiers, lands, materials, communities - and ones defined by walls, ramparts or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785702351
• ISBN13: 9781785702358
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.7" x 11.3"