Town Origins and Development in Early England, C.400-950 A.D. (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313300790)

Relying heavily on primary literary sources and archaeological scholarship, this study sheds new light on the development of towns in early England from late Roman to late Anglo-Saxon times. After a discussion of the problems of urban definition and typology, Russo examines the background of Romano-British urbanism in its prime and in its late Roman transformations. He demonstrates that late Roman towns were virtually abandoned before the Anglo-Saxon invasions. The emporia--new types of Anglo-Saxon towns--are analyzed on the basis of written and archaeological evidence and are compared with continental emporia. Finally, the origin and growth of the Anglo-Saxon burgh is considered from its eighth-century Mercian beginnings to the better known cases of King Alfred and his successors.

Author: Daniel Russo
ISBN-10: 0313300798
ISBN-13: 9780313300790
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 04/30/1998
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.55h x 6.46w x 1.18d