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Windgather Press - Landscape History after Hoskins
Series Editor: Christopher Dyer
The books in this series celebrate a great scholar: W.G. Hoskins, the author of The Making of the English Landscape. Organised chronologically, they reflect the range of contemporary British landscapes studies scholarship that Hoskins book, now more than 50 years old, has ultimately come to inspire. The chapters published here demonstrate the progress of the discipline since Hoskins, and readers will gain an impression of its liveliness, of new thinking, and of the wide range of subject matter. All scholars and students of landscape history will find essential reading within these pages.
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Post-Medieval Landscapes
edited by P S Barnwell and Marilyn Palmer
The formation of the landscape archaeological record is primarily a product of the post-medieval period' (Tom Williamson). This book reflects some of the most recent work in landscape studies of the period since 1500. It builds upon ideas and techniques pioneered by Hoskins in fields such as Anglo-Saxon topography and vernacular architecture, and also demonstrates how scholars are developing the subject conceptually, to examine landscapes as ...
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Medieval Landscapes
edited by Mark Gardiner and Stephen Rippon
The medieval period was at the centre of W G Hoskins concerns: the period when his 'palimpsest' of the English landscape was, if not quite wiped clean, very thoroughly overwritten. The essays here demonstrate how researchers have moved beyond issues of describing and 'reading' the landscape to address the social and ideological - as well as economic - functions of landscapes, and to seek explanations for regional difference. 287p, 67 ...
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Prehistoric and Roman Landscapes
edited by Andrew Fleming and Richard Hingley
As the essays in this book demonstrate, Prehistoric and Romano-British landscape studies have come a long way since Hoskins, whose work reflected the prevailing 'Celtic' ethnological narrative of Britain before the medieval period. The contributors present a stimulating survey of the subject as it is in the early twenty-first century, and provide some sense of a research frontier where new conceptualisations of 'otherness' and new research ...
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