Roman infrastructure in early medieval Britain : the adaptations of the past in text and stone /

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Author / Creator:	Fafinski, Mateusz, author.
Imprint:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]
Description:	1 online resource (242 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	The Early Medieval North Atlantic Early medieval North Atlantic.
Subject:	Romans -- Great Britain. Classical antiquities. Romans. Great Britain -- Antiquities, Roman. Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485. Great Britain. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13457480

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ISBN:	9048551978 9789048551972 9463727531 9789463727532
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 05, 2021).
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Fafinski, Mateusz. Roman Infrastructure in Early Medieval Britain : The Adaptations of the Past in Text and Stone. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2021

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