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Chris Gerrard looks at the people and excavations that have been important in medieval archaeology and the core theory and methodology used, creating an essential text for all medieval archaeologists.

Title Medieval archaeology : understanding traditions and contemporary approaches / Christopher Gerrard.
Publisher London
New York : Routledge
Creation Date 2003
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-290) and index.
English
Content Book Cover
Title
Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
The discovery of ignorance
Inventing the Middle Ages: antiquarian views (to c.1800)
Lights and shadows: medievalism, the Gothic Revival and the nineteenth century (to 1882)
An emerging discipline: monuments, methods and ideas (1882 1945)
Into the light
Out of the shell: medieval archaeology comes of age (1945 1970)
Breaking ranks: new ideas, new techniques, the Rescue years and after (1970 1989)
Winds of change
Retrospect and prospect: medieval archaeology today (1990 to the present)
Bibliography
Index
Extent 1 online resource (321 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010710547705171
MARC RECORDS
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