
Formative Britain
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This highly illustrated volume is the first book that attempts to describe the experience of all levels of society over the whole island using archaeology alone. The story is drawn from the clothes, faces and biology of men and women, the images that survive in their poetry, the places they lived, the work they did, the ingenious celebrations of their graves and burial grounds, their decorated stone monuments and their diverse messages.
This ground-breaking account is aimed at students and archaeological researchers at all levels in the academic and commercial sectors. It will also inform relevant stakeholders and general readers alike of how the islands of Britain developed in the early medieval period. Many of the ideas forged in Britain's formative years underpin those of today as the UK seeks to find a consensus programme for its future.
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"...it is a pleasure to enjoy an extended synthesis produced by a deep thinker who has done so much to frame the ways in which students (writ large) of the early medieval period think about their material." - Chris Fowler, Antiquity"The range of location and example is extraordinary, with excellent referencing and a comprehensive bibliography. As a teaching aid, it should be welcomed; as a student's introduction to the fast-changing perceptions and understandings of this well-named 'formative' period in Britain's history, it will be a valued primer...Formative Britain is a great achievement." - Brian Ayers, The Journal of the Historical Association
"This is a magnificent book that truly does justice to the study of post-Roman Britain. It celebrates the enormous wealth of information at the archaeologist's (and historian's) disposal beyond those written texts which have long determined the narrative of this epoch...There is so much to admire in Carver's thesis. This is a vivid narrative which has largely evaded the shadow of the canon". - Richard Hodges, Medieval Archaeology
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List of figures
List of abbreviations
Picture credits
Preface
Chapter 1 Inheritance: landscapes and predecessors
Chapter 2: Looking for personhood: physique and adornment
Chapter 3: Working from home: settlement and economies
Chapter 4 Addressing eternity: cemeteries as ritual places
Chapter 5 Monumentality: sculpture, churches and illuminated books
Chapter 6: Materiality of words: myths and records
Chapter 7 Narratives - reflections - legacies
References
Index
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