Susan Oosthuizen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1119002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Oosthuizen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Oosthuizen |
| SIGNATURE | OOSTHUIZEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3837-6823 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ethnic Identity and the Archaeology of the “Adventus Saxonum.”
Lichfield and the Lands of St Chad: Creating Community in Early Medieval Mercia, by Andrew Sargent
Journal Article Lichfield and the Lands of St Chad: Creating Community in Early Medieval Mercia, by Andrew Sargent Get access Lichfield and the Lands of St Chad: Creating Community in Early Medieval Mercia, by Andrew Sargent (Hertford: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2020; pp. xii + 290. £18.99). Susan Oosthuizen Susan Oosthuizen University of Cambridge, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
Christopher Charles Taylor 7 November 1935 – 28 May 2021
Early Islamic North Africa: A New Perspective
This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in North Africa. In recent years, those studying the Islamic world have shown that the coming of Islam was not marked by devastation or decline, but rather by considerable cultural and economic continuity. In North Africa, with continuity came significant change. Corisande Fenwick argues that the establishment of Muslim rule also coincided with a phase of intense ur…
Culture and identity in the early medieval fenland landscape
The fen-basin is located in a region in which material culture had become largely Germanic by the mid-fifth century. This paper evaluates the contribution made to an understanding of that process of cultural change by place-names, archaeology and documentary records. Archaeological evidence indicates little post-Roman abandonment of the fenland; the region continued to be inhabited and exploited. Patterns of intercommoning, the Tribal Hidage, and…
The Woods of Ireland. A History, 700–1800
Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming
Noting there was no textbook and little secondary literature on the practicalities of Anglo-Saxon farming, Debby Banham and Rosamond Faith set out to fill that gap. They have succeeded brilliantly
Exploring and Explaining Diversity in Agricultural Technology
In this rich and stimulating volume, 27 scholars report the results of their research on the origins, technologies and cultural context of traditional agriculture principally in Europe and the Medi
Beyond hierarchy: Archaeology, Common Rights and Social Identity
It is an archaeological commonplace that grazing across extensive pastures in many periods was shared, often over extended lengths of time, by kin-based communities who met there seasonally in large groups. Such explanations are richly implicit with models of social relations – there were large communities, they were made up of one or more kin groups, they shared pasture and they had regular assemblies. How did that general framework of social st…
Recognizing and Moving on from a Failed Paradigm: The Case of Agricultural Landscapes in Anglo-Saxon England c. AD 400–800
Samantha Paul & John Hunt . Evolution of a community: The colonization of a clay inland landscape. 2015. xii+245 pages, 67 colour and b&w illustrations, and 39 tables. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-7849…
Samantha Paul & John Hunt . Evolution of a community: the colonization of a clay inland landscape. 2015. xii+245 pages, 67 colour and b&w illustrations, and 39 tables. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-78491-086-0 paperback £45. - Volume 89 Issue 348
Champion: The Making and Unmaking of the English Midland Landscape. By T om W illiamson , R obert L iddiard and T racey P artida
(2014). Champion: The Making and Unmaking of the English Midland Landscape. By Tom Williamson, Robert Liddiard and Tracey Partida. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 171, No. 1, pp. 412-413
A ‘truth universally acknowledged’: Morphology as an indicator of medieval planned market towns
The paper explores, through the case study of March, a large town in the northern part of the Cambridgeshire peat fens, the general invariability of interpretation as planned markets of new medieval settlements that include both regular plots and one or more geometric open spaces. It asks whether manorial lords might achieve similar ends to those derived from medieval market grants — an increase in income from rents and tolls — by applying lesson…
Beyond hierarchy: The Archaeology of Collective Governance
The question interrogated here, through the case study of agricultural resources, is whether the governance of collective rights of property in past non-literate communities can be explored through archaeological methods. Property rights and the structures for their governance are an expression of social relations. According to Alchian and Demsetz (1973, 16), the 'techniques, rules, or customs to resolve conflicts that arise in the use of scarce …
Archaeology, common rights and the origins of Anglo-Saxon identity: Common rights and Anglo-Saxon identity
It is generally accepted that rights over land, especially rights of pasture, played a formative role in establishing the identity of early Anglo-Saxon ‘folk groups’, the predecessors of the middle Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. This speculative paper sets early medieval and medieval common rights in the context of the archaeological longue durée of the period before 400 ad. It argues that ancient traditions of common governance, integral to Anglo-Saxon i…
The Landscape Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England
The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial to the development of the English landscape, but is rarely studied. The essays here provide radical new interpretations of its development. Traditional opinion has perceived the Anglo-Saxons as creating an entirely new landscape from scratch in the fifth and sixth centuries AD, cutting down woodland, and bringing with them the practice of open field agriculture, and establishing villages. Whilst recent scholarsh…
Landscapes decoded: The origins and development of Cambridgeshire's medieval fields
Presenting the research into the landscape history of the Bourn Valley, west of Cambridge, this book is published as the first volume in a series of mid-length monographs on unusual subjects within local and regional history. It is illustrated throughout with maps and photos
New Light on the Origins of Open-field Farming
THE PROBLEM addressed in this paper is the proposition that 'classic' medieval open-field systems were laid out, parish by parish, by individual communities, each working independently of its neighbours, between about A.D. 850 and 1150. There is physical and documentary evidence that a large, cohesive field-layout extended across four contiguous parishes on the northern side of the Bourn Brook, West Cambridgeshire, until Parliamentary enclosure. …
Charles Scott-Fox. Cyril Fox, archaeologist extraordinary. xxii+240 pages, 94 figures, 2 colour plates. 2002. Oxford: Oxbow; 1-84217-080-5 hardback £25
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Medieval greens and moats in the Central Province: Evidence from the Bourn Valley, Cambridgeshire
This paper considers the evidence, and some explanations, for the survival into the nineteenth century of large, apparently Anglo-Saxon, greens, commons and of moated sites, traditionally associated with ‘ancient’ landscapes, in west Cambridgeshire, an area of classic two-and three-field common field arrangements
John O'Gaunt's House’, Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire: A fifteenth-century landscape
This paper describes a remarkable archaeological site at Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire. It is interpreted as the remains of a late medieval house and elaborate garden of a type hitherto unknown in Britain. The documented history suggests that it was created by John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, between 1461 and 1470. It may partly have been based on the then new gardens of the Renaissance that Tiptoft had seen during a visit to Italy in the late 145…
The Origins of Cambridgeshire
This paper examines the effects on the landscape of Anglo-Saxon immigration in a frontier zone, on either side of the Cam valley which formed the ancient boundary between East Anglia and Mercia. An examination of the placenames, institutions and landscape archaeology on either side of the Cam frontier appears to reveal an unexpected degree of continuity in landscape use between the Roman and middle Saxon periods. This apparent continuity is more …
Medieval settlement relocation in West Cambridgeshire: Three case-studies
Planned nucleated settlement (often hand in hand with the creation of open fields) and subsequent settlement shift is a recognised common component in the complex development of the medieval landscape in much of central and southern England. This paper takes three examples of settlement over earlier arable in west Cambridgeshire. In each case examination has suggested that sites, initially supposed to have represented the initial late Saxon nucle…
Isleham: A medieval inland port
Although the importance of waterborne transport in the Middle Ages has recently become more controversial, its significance in the Cambridgeshire fens has received little detailed attention. This study of Isleham, on the north-eastern Cambridgeshire fen-edge, emphasises the primary role of communications by water in this region and takes earlier work a step further by showing how the form of fen-edge settlement is wholly oriented to the availabil…
Beyond hierarchy: The Archaeology of Collective Governance
The question interrogated here, through the case study of agricultural resources, is whether the governance of collective rights of property in past non-literate communities can be explored through archaeological methods. Property rights and the structures for their governance are an expression of social relations. According to Alchian and Demsetz (1973, 16), the 'techniques, rules, or customs to resolve conflicts that arise in the use of scarce …
Beyond hierarchy: Archaeology, Common Rights and Social Identity
It is an archaeological commonplace that grazing across extensive pastures in many periods was shared, often over extended lengths of time, by kin-based communities who met there seasonally in large groups. Such explanations are richly implicit with models of social relations – there were large communities, they were made up of one or more kin groups, they shared pasture and they had regular assemblies. How did that general framework of social st…
Archaeology, common rights and the origins of Anglo-Saxon identity: Common rights and Anglo-Saxon identity
It is generally accepted that rights over land, especially rights of pasture, played a formative role in establishing the identity of early Anglo-Saxon ‘folk groups’, the predecessors of the middle Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. This speculative paper sets early medieval and medieval common rights in the context of the archaeological longue durée of the period before 400 ad. It argues that ancient traditions of common governance, integral to Anglo-Saxon i…
Recognizing and Moving on from a Failed Paradigm: The Case of Agricultural Landscapes in Anglo-Saxon England c. AD 400–800
Samantha Paul & John Hunt . Evolution of a community: The colonization of a clay inland landscape. 2015. xii+245 pages, 67 colour and b&w illustrations, and 39 tables. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-7849…
Samantha Paul & John Hunt . Evolution of a community: the colonization of a clay inland landscape. 2015. xii+245 pages, 67 colour and b&w illustrations, and 39 tables. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-78491-086-0 paperback £45. - Volume 89 Issue 348
Isleham: A medieval inland port
Although the importance of waterborne transport in the Middle Ages has recently become more controversial, its significance in the Cambridgeshire fens has received little detailed attention. This study of Isleham, on the north-eastern Cambridgeshire fen-edge, emphasises the primary role of communications by water in this region and takes earlier work a step further by showing how the form of fen-edge settlement is wholly oriented to the availabil…
Medieval settlement relocation in West Cambridgeshire: Three case-studies
Planned nucleated settlement (often hand in hand with the creation of open fields) and subsequent settlement shift is a recognised common component in the complex development of the medieval landscape in much of central and southern England. This paper takes three examples of settlement over earlier arable in west Cambridgeshire. In each case examination has suggested that sites, initially supposed to have represented the initial late Saxon nucle…
The Origins of Cambridgeshire
This paper examines the effects on the landscape of Anglo-Saxon immigration in a frontier zone, on either side of the Cam valley which formed the ancient boundary between East Anglia and Mercia. An examination of the placenames, institutions and landscape archaeology on either side of the Cam frontier appears to reveal an unexpected degree of continuity in landscape use between the Roman and middle Saxon periods. This apparent continuity is more …
John O'Gaunt's House’, Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire: A fifteenth-century landscape
This paper describes a remarkable archaeological site at Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire. It is interpreted as the remains of a late medieval house and elaborate garden of a type hitherto unknown in Britain. The documented history suggests that it was created by John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, between 1461 and 1470. It may partly have been based on the then new gardens of the Renaissance that Tiptoft had seen during a visit to Italy in the late 145…
Medieval greens and moats in the Central Province: Evidence from the Bourn Valley, Cambridgeshire
This paper considers the evidence, and some explanations, for the survival into the nineteenth century of large, apparently Anglo-Saxon, greens, commons and of moated sites, traditionally associated with ‘ancient’ landscapes, in west Cambridgeshire, an area of classic two-and three-field common field arrangements
Charles Scott-Fox. Cyril Fox, archaeologist extraordinary. xxii+240 pages, 94 figures, 2 colour plates. 2002. Oxford: Oxbow; 1-84217-080-5 hardback £25
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
New Light on the Origins of Open-field Farming
THE PROBLEM addressed in this paper is the proposition that 'classic' medieval open-field systems were laid out, parish by parish, by individual communities, each working independently of its neighbours, between about A.D. 850 and 1150. There is physical and documentary evidence that a large, cohesive field-layout extended across four contiguous parishes on the northern side of the Bourn Brook, West Cambridgeshire, until Parliamentary enclosure. …
Landscapes decoded: The origins and development of Cambridgeshire's medieval fields
Presenting the research into the landscape history of the Bourn Valley, west of Cambridge, this book is published as the first volume in a series of mid-length monographs on unusual subjects within local and regional history. It is illustrated throughout with maps and photos
The Landscape Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England
The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial to the development of the English landscape, but is rarely studied. The essays here provide radical new interpretations of its development. Traditional opinion has perceived the Anglo-Saxons as creating an entirely new landscape from scratch in the fifth and sixth centuries AD, cutting down woodland, and bringing with them the practice of open field agriculture, and establishing villages. Whilst recent scholarsh…
Archaeology, common rights and the origins of Anglo-Saxon identity: Common rights and Anglo-Saxon identity
It is generally accepted that rights over land, especially rights of pasture, played a formative role in establishing the identity of early Anglo-Saxon ‘folk groups’, the predecessors of the middle Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. This speculative paper sets early medieval and medieval common rights in the context of the archaeological longue durée of the period before 400 ad. It argues that ancient traditions of common governance, integral to Anglo-Saxon i…
A ‘truth universally acknowledged’: Morphology as an indicator of medieval planned market towns
The paper explores, through the case study of March, a large town in the northern part of the Cambridgeshire peat fens, the general invariability of interpretation as planned markets of new medieval settlements that include both regular plots and one or more geometric open spaces. It asks whether manorial lords might achieve similar ends to those derived from medieval market grants — an increase in income from rents and tolls — by applying lesson…
Beyond hierarchy: The Archaeology of Collective Governance
The question interrogated here, through the case study of agricultural resources, is whether the governance of collective rights of property in past non-literate communities can be explored through archaeological methods. Property rights and the structures for their governance are an expression of social relations. According to Alchian and Demsetz (1973, 16), the 'techniques, rules, or customs to resolve conflicts that arise in the use of scarce …
Champion: The Making and Unmaking of the English Midland Landscape. By T om W illiamson , R obert L iddiard and T racey P artida
(2014). Champion: The Making and Unmaking of the English Midland Landscape. By Tom Williamson, Robert Liddiard and Tracey Partida. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 171, No. 1, pp. 412-413
Recognizing and Moving on from a Failed Paradigm: The Case of Agricultural Landscapes in Anglo-Saxon England c. AD 400–800
Samantha Paul & John Hunt . Evolution of a community: The colonization of a clay inland landscape. 2015. xii+245 pages, 67 colour and b&w illustrations, and 39 tables. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-7849…
Samantha Paul & John Hunt . Evolution of a community: the colonization of a clay inland landscape. 2015. xii+245 pages, 67 colour and b&w illustrations, and 39 tables. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-78491-086-0 paperback £45. - Volume 89 Issue 348
Culture and identity in the early medieval fenland landscape
The fen-basin is located in a region in which material culture had become largely Germanic by the mid-fifth century. This paper evaluates the contribution made to an understanding of that process of cultural change by place-names, archaeology and documentary records. Archaeological evidence indicates little post-Roman abandonment of the fenland; the region continued to be inhabited and exploited. Patterns of intercommoning, the Tribal Hidage, and…
The Woods of Ireland. A History, 700–1800
Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming
Noting there was no textbook and little secondary literature on the practicalities of Anglo-Saxon farming, Debby Banham and Rosamond Faith set out to fill that gap. They have succeeded brilliantly
Exploring and Explaining Diversity in Agricultural Technology
In this rich and stimulating volume, 27 scholars report the results of their research on the origins, technologies and cultural context of traditional agriculture principally in Europe and the Medi
Beyond hierarchy: Archaeology, Common Rights and Social Identity
It is an archaeological commonplace that grazing across extensive pastures in many periods was shared, often over extended lengths of time, by kin-based communities who met there seasonally in large groups. Such explanations are richly implicit with models of social relations – there were large communities, they were made up of one or more kin groups, they shared pasture and they had regular assemblies. How did that general framework of social st…
Early Islamic North Africa: A New Perspective
This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in North Africa. In recent years, those studying the Islamic world have shown that the coming of Islam was not marked by devastation or decline, but rather by considerable cultural and economic continuity. In North Africa, with continuity came significant change. Corisande Fenwick argues that the establishment of Muslim rule also coincided with a phase of intense ur…
Christopher Charles Taylor 7 November 1935 – 28 May 2021
Ethnic Identity and the Archaeology of the “Adventus Saxonum.”
Lichfield and the Lands of St Chad: Creating Community in Early Medieval Mercia, by Andrew Sargent
Journal Article Lichfield and the Lands of St Chad: Creating Community in Early Medieval Mercia, by Andrew Sargent Get access Lichfield and the Lands of St Chad: Creating Community in Early Medieval Mercia, by Andrew Sargent (Hertford: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2020; pp. xii + 290. £18.99). Susan Oosthuizen Susan Oosthuizen University of Cambridge, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
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