Late Antique and Early Medieval Hispania: Landscapes without Strategy? 1785709968, 9781785709968

Table of contents :
Cover
Book Title
Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface by Neil Christie
Introduction
Part I. Hispania (AD 400–711). An historical, archaeological and geographical background
1. The Iberian Peninsula: a land of multiple landscapes?
2. The last decades of the Western Roman Empire and the processes of disengagement
Part II. Landscapes without strategy?
3. Building the urban picture in late antique Hispania
4. Far from the ancient villae: new forms of habitat in rural contexts
Part III. Peopling the landscape
5. Identifying post-classical populations in the archaeological record
6. Christian leaders? Impacts on town, country and people
7. Ethnic landscapes? Between natives and incomers
8. Conclusion. Landscapes of power and the new social organization of early medieval Hispania
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