{"product_id":"stories-from-the-edge-matthew-blake-9781407316697","title":"Stories from the Edge: Creating Identities in Early Medieval Staffordshire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStories from the Edge\u003c\/em\u003e identifies a methodology to illuminate the early medieval history of places that lack the compelling evidence to be included in national surveys of the period. It demonstrates that even in seemingly unpromising places something can be said about the people of the period. In landscape terms it is a study of the little world, the local, the manorial complex with its church and burial place, a micro-topography, investigating the construction of social memory. Through this we see the way the early medieval landscape was perceived and how people engaged with it in a creative and imaginative series of responses. Their past and present were negotiated and expressed through the landscape. It is about stories and storytelling, about the creation of memory, the invention of home, spirituality and social hierarchy. This study re-tells some of those stories and recaptures the early medieval sense of place in Pirehill. Above all though, this is an account of living in a mutable landscape and the stories people once told there. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Blake\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1407316699\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781407316697\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.69h x 8.27w x 0.39d","brand":"Matthew Blake","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059037761791,"sku":"9781407316697","price":79.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_94a849d0-b3dc-447e-841e-fc640e7b3128.jpg?v=1685055886","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stories-from-the-edge-matthew-blake-9781407316697","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}