Roman Infrastructure in Early Medieval Britain : : The Adaptations of the Past in Text and Stone / / Mateusz Fafinski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Fafinski, Mateusz,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: The Early Medieval North Atlantic ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

Early Medieval Britain is more Roman than we think. The Roman Empire left vast infrastructural resources on the island. These resources lay buried not only in dirt and soil, but also in texts, laws, chronicles - even charters, churches, and landscapes. This book uncovers them and shows how they shaped Early Medieval Britain. Infrastructure, material and symbolic, can work in ways that are not immediately obvious and exert an influence long after the builders have gone. Infrastructure can also rest dormant and be reactivated with a changed function, role and appearance. This is not a simple story of continuity and discontinuity: it is a story of transformation, of how the Roman infrastructural past was used and re-used, and also how it influenced the later societies of Britain.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- I. Frameworks: From Historiography to the Principal Terms -- II. Movements: Charters and Roman Transport Infrastructure -- III. Accomodations: Roman Urban Spaces in Post-Roman and Early Medieval Britain -- IV. Spaces: The Church and What Rome Left -- Epilogue -- Bibliography