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About the Author
Christopher Gerrard is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at Durham University. His eight books include Medieval Archaeology: Understanding Traditions and Contemporary Approaches (2003) and Interpreting the English Village: Landscape and Community at Shapwick, Somerset which won the Best Archaeological Book of the Year award in 2014. His fieldwork includes excavations in Spain and the Azores and projects on qanats, natural disasters in the Middle Ages and, most recently, the discovery of mass graves of 17th-century Scottish soldiers under one of the University's libraries. Alejandra Gutierrez is a Research Fellow at Durham University. Her interests lie in the study of medieval and later material culture, particularly the movement of goods, trade and exchange, and European contact with Britain in the Middle Ages. She writes about ceramics and other archaeological finds and has authored numerous articles on the subject, including a book, Mediterranean Pottery in Wessex Households and an accompanying web-guide for the identification of medieval and later Spanish pottery.
Reviews
The editors have done an exemplary job of knitting this volume together into a cohesive, readable and fluent landmark of scholarship for this field. * Patrick Gleeson, Agricultural History Review *
[The Handbook]...is a major achievement. It is as clear a synthesis of current thinking on later medieval archaeology as one could hope to achieve, and will be of use to all students of the period, whether archaeologists or those in other disciplines who wish for an authoritative guide to interpret and inform future studies. * Andrew Davidson, Archaeologia Cambrensis *
Overall this collection represents an enormous editing project, which will serve as a very useful resource. * Deirdre O'Sullivan, Archaeological Journal *
This is a very fine book, equally valuable to experts as to undergraduates. It will immediately establish itself as a key reference work * Paul Stamper, Medieval Archaeology *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198858041
Author Christopher Gerrard
Format Paperback
Page Count 1104
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 2026g
Dimensions(mm) 245mm * 170mm * 55mm