The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain (Oxford Handbooks)

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The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain
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Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Part I Writing Later  Medieval Archaeology
	1 Overview: people and projects
	2 Methods in medieval archaeology
	3 Embracing new perspectives
	4 The written evidence for the later Middle Ages
Part II The Medieval Countryside
	5 Overview: geographies of medieval Britain
	6 Field systems and the arable fields
	7 The animal in late medieval Britain
	8 The archaeobotany of late medieval plant remains:  the resource and the research
	9 Medieval fishing and fish trade
	10 The medieval wild
	11 Coping with disaster
Part III Rural Settlement and Buildings
	12 Overview: the form and pattern of medieval settlement
	13 Rural living 1100–​1540
	14 Perceptions of medieval settlement
	15 Peasant houses
	16 The medieval manor house and the moated site
	17 Agricultural buildings
Part IV Living in Towns and Ports
	18 Overview: living in medieval towns
	19 Urban housing
	20 Medieval shops
	21 Town and countryside
	22 Urban infrastructure
Part V Power and Display
	23 Overview: castles and elite landscapes
	24 Medieval palaces and royal houses
	25 Royal and aristocratic landscapes of pleasure
	26 Medieval battlefield archaeology
	27 Symbols of power
Part VI Crafts, Industry,  and Objects
	28 Overview: medieval industry and commerce
	29 Quarrying and extractive industries
	30 The medieval workshop
	31 Water and wind power
	32 Old money, new methods: coins and later medieval archaeology
	33 Play and playfulness in late medieval Britain:  theory, concept, practice
Part VII The Archaeology of Religion and Belief
	34 Overview: church and landscape c.1100–​1550
	35 The medieval monastery and its landscape
	36 The cathedral
	37 The medieval parish church: architecture, furnishings,  and fittings
	38 Approaching medieval sacrality
	39 Medieval graffiti inscriptions
	40 An archaeology of pilgrimage
	41 The devotional image in late medieval England
Part VIII An Archaeology of  the Senses
	42 Overview: the medieval senses
	43 Cooking, dining, and drinking
	44 Sound and landscape
	45 London smellwalk around 1450: smelling medieval cities
	46 Medieval colour
Part IX Growing Up and Growing Old
	47 Overview: archaeology and the medieval
	48 Birth and childhood
	49 Dressing the body
	50 Gender and space in the later Middle Ages: past, present, and future routes
	51 Health and well-​being: the contribution of the study of human remains to understanding the late medieval period in Britain
	52 Medieval medicine, public health, and the medieval hospital
	53 Later medieval death and burial
	54 The medieval afterlife
Part X A Wider Context:  Trade and Exchange, Europe  and Beyond
	55 Overview: trade and other contacts in late medieval Britain
	56 Looking west: Ireland in the Middle Ages
	57 Looking south-east: France in the Middle Ages
	58 Looking north-​east: Southern Scandinavia in the Middle Ages
	59 Looking south: Spain and Portugal in the Middle Ages
	60 A last word: the study of later medieval archaeology
Index