Steven Bassett
Biographic Data
| ID | 5405990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Bassett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Bassett |
| SIGNATURE | BASSETT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3826-3960 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A High Street Inheritance: Henley-in-Arden in 1419-20
The contents of a previously overlooked rental of the borough of Henley-in-Arden, composed in 1419–20 when the co-heirs to the Freville lands were trying to decide how to share out their inheritance, are presented and discussed. Rare in the combination of its extent and date, it provides an important view of tenurial arrangements in the borough in the aftermath of the plague outbreaks of the previous seventy years. Some elements of continuity can…
Identifying opportunity hot spots for reducing the risk of wildfire-caused carbon loss in western US conifer forests
The escalating climate and wildfire crises have generated worldwide interest in using proactive forest management (e.g. forest thinning, prescribed fire, cultural burning) to mitigate the risk of wildfire-caused carbon loss in forests. To estimate the risk of wildfire-caused carbon loss in western United States (US) conifer forests, we used a generalizable framework to evaluate interactions among wildfire hazard and carbon exposure and vulnerabil…
The hidation of the Hwicce: Investigating its halving between the eighth century and 1086
The total hidage of land in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the Hwicce at its greatest extent appears to have been halved at an unknown date between the eighth century and the late eleventh. The article examines the relatively small number of surviving original texts of charters and leases which relate to land both in that kingdom and in all other parts of the kingdom of the Mercians into which it was at length subsumed. With other apparent instances …
Natural climate solutions for the United States
U.S. land management can contribute 1.2 Pg CO 2 e year −1 of greenhouse gas mitigation, 76% of which costs USD 50 Mg CO 2 e −1 or less.
The landed endowment of the Anglo-Saxon minster at Hanbury (Worcs.)
Many of the minsters founded and generously endowed in the first century and a half of Anglo-Saxon christianity were evidently failing as efficient managers of their estates by the late eighth century, if we judge by the actions of the bishops in whose dioceses they sat. In the diocese of Worcester bishops can be seen transferring the administration of the lands of such minsters to the cathedral community, and then seeking ratification from the M…
Divide and rule? The military infrastructure of eighth‐ and ninth‐century Mercia
Military might is widely recognized as having been a key element in the Mercian kings’ ability to forge and maintain a large kingdom in midland England in and after the seventh century. The paper argues that its basis was a network of fortified places – all major royal settlements that were given substantial defences in the eighth and early ninth centuries – and a systemic mechanism for manning them. The archaeological evidence of these defences …
The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople
Continuity and fission in the Anglo-Saxon landscape: The origins of the Rodings (Essex)
The eight ecclesiastical parishes in west Essex known as the Rodings contained sixteen separate manors and other, minor holdings in 1086. They had been formed by the piecemeal fission of a single land-unit, arguably one which was the settlement area of an early Anglo-Saxon community whose name they all perpetuated—*HroÐingas, ‘people of *HroÐa’. Very few other similarly early territories can be reliably identified, either (as in this case) from t…
Medieval Ecclesiastical Organisation in the Vicinity of Wroxeter and Its British Antecedents
The use of written, cartographic and toponymic evidence allows the identification of St Andrew's, Wroxeter, as a middle Saxon minster church and the rediscovery of the original extent of its parish. The sites of the other contemporary churches of the region around Wroxeter, and their parochial geography, can also be established. Moreover, several substantive pieces of evidence (not least a major anomaly in the course of the boundary between the m…
Anglo-Saxon Shrewsbury and Its Churches
It is no exaggeration to say that we know nothing about the origins of Shrewsbury. At the start of the tenth century, when it is first referred to in written sources, the place was already of very considerable importance — a royal centre at which Ealdorman Æthelred and his wife Æthelflæd stayed in 901 with a sizeable contingent of Mercian aristocrats. When, a little over a century later, we next find it recorded, Shrewsbury was at the head of a s…
Lincoln and the Anglo-Saxon see of Lindsey
It is by no means universally agreed that Lindsey was ever a kingdom or had kings. Stenton, in what is still the most thorough discussion of Lindsey, expressed his doubts on the matter but then dismissed them; there are other scholars who retain theirs. Of those listed, for example, in the supposedly royal genealogy ( not a regnal list) of Lindsey, none apart from the last named, Aldfrith, is known to have been a king; some of them may indeed hav…
Churches in Worcester Before and After the Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxon see of Worcester was probably not established until 679 or 680, over eighty years after the arrival of the Augustinian mission. It has usually been taken for granted that the Hwicce, for whom the new see was set up, had until then been subject to the see of the Mercians, but there is no evidence to show this. The latter see, moreover, had itself not been created until c . 656. Are we, therefore, to assume that the Hwicce remained …
Churches in Worcester Before and After the Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxon see of Worcester was probably not established until 679 or 680, over eighty years after the arrival of the Augustinian mission. It has usually been taken for granted that the Hwicce, for whom the new see was set up, had until then been subject to the see of the Mercians, but there is no evidence to show this. The latter see, moreover, had itself not been created until c . 656. Are we, therefore, to assume that the Hwicce remained …
Lincoln and the Anglo-Saxon see of Lindsey
It is by no means universally agreed that Lindsey was ever a kingdom or had kings. Stenton, in what is still the most thorough discussion of Lindsey, expressed his doubts on the matter but then dismissed them; there are other scholars who retain theirs. Of those listed, for example, in the supposedly royal genealogy ( not a regnal list) of Lindsey, none apart from the last named, Aldfrith, is known to have been a king; some of them may indeed hav…
Divide and rule? The military infrastructure of eighth‐ and ninth‐century Mercia
Military might is widely recognized as having been a key element in the Mercian kings’ ability to forge and maintain a large kingdom in midland England in and after the seventh century. The paper argues that its basis was a network of fortified places – all major royal settlements that were given substantial defences in the eighth and early ninth centuries – and a systemic mechanism for manning them. The archaeological evidence of these defences …
The landed endowment of the Anglo-Saxon minster at Hanbury (Worcs.)
Many of the minsters founded and generously endowed in the first century and a half of Anglo-Saxon christianity were evidently failing as efficient managers of their estates by the late eighth century, if we judge by the actions of the bishops in whose dioceses they sat. In the diocese of Worcester bishops can be seen transferring the administration of the lands of such minsters to the cathedral community, and then seeking ratification from the M…
Anglo-Saxon Shrewsbury and Its Churches
It is no exaggeration to say that we know nothing about the origins of Shrewsbury. At the start of the tenth century, when it is first referred to in written sources, the place was already of very considerable importance — a royal centre at which Ealdorman Æthelred and his wife Æthelflæd stayed in 901 with a sizeable contingent of Mercian aristocrats. When, a little over a century later, we next find it recorded, Shrewsbury was at the head of a s…
Lincoln and the Anglo-Saxon see of Lindsey
It is by no means universally agreed that Lindsey was ever a kingdom or had kings. Stenton, in what is still the most thorough discussion of Lindsey, expressed his doubts on the matter but then dismissed them; there are other scholars who retain theirs. Of those listed, for example, in the supposedly royal genealogy ( not a regnal list) of Lindsey, none apart from the last named, Aldfrith, is known to have been a king; some of them may indeed hav…
Churches in Worcester Before and After the Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxon see of Worcester was probably not established until 679 or 680, over eighty years after the arrival of the Augustinian mission. It has usually been taken for granted that the Hwicce, for whom the new see was set up, had until then been subject to the see of the Mercians, but there is no evidence to show this. The latter see, moreover, had itself not been created until c . 656. Are we, therefore, to assume that the Hwicce remained …
Anglo-Saxon Shrewsbury and Its Churches
It is no exaggeration to say that we know nothing about the origins of Shrewsbury. At the start of the tenth century, when it is first referred to in written sources, the place was already of very considerable importance — a royal centre at which Ealdorman Æthelred and his wife Æthelflæd stayed in 901 with a sizeable contingent of Mercian aristocrats. When, a little over a century later, we next find it recorded, Shrewsbury was at the head of a s…
Medieval Ecclesiastical Organisation in the Vicinity of Wroxeter and Its British Antecedents
The use of written, cartographic and toponymic evidence allows the identification of St Andrew's, Wroxeter, as a middle Saxon minster church and the rediscovery of the original extent of its parish. The sites of the other contemporary churches of the region around Wroxeter, and their parochial geography, can also be established. Moreover, several substantive pieces of evidence (not least a major anomaly in the course of the boundary between the m…
Continuity and fission in the Anglo-Saxon landscape: The origins of the Rodings (Essex)
The eight ecclesiastical parishes in west Essex known as the Rodings contained sixteen separate manors and other, minor holdings in 1086. They had been formed by the piecemeal fission of a single land-unit, arguably one which was the settlement area of an early Anglo-Saxon community whose name they all perpetuated—*HroÐingas, ‘people of *HroÐa’. Very few other similarly early territories can be reliably identified, either (as in this case) from t…
The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople
Divide and rule? The military infrastructure of eighth‐ and ninth‐century Mercia
Military might is widely recognized as having been a key element in the Mercian kings’ ability to forge and maintain a large kingdom in midland England in and after the seventh century. The paper argues that its basis was a network of fortified places – all major royal settlements that were given substantial defences in the eighth and early ninth centuries – and a systemic mechanism for manning them. The archaeological evidence of these defences …
The landed endowment of the Anglo-Saxon minster at Hanbury (Worcs.)
Many of the minsters founded and generously endowed in the first century and a half of Anglo-Saxon christianity were evidently failing as efficient managers of their estates by the late eighth century, if we judge by the actions of the bishops in whose dioceses they sat. In the diocese of Worcester bishops can be seen transferring the administration of the lands of such minsters to the cathedral community, and then seeking ratification from the M…
Natural climate solutions for the United States
U.S. land management can contribute 1.2 Pg CO 2 e year −1 of greenhouse gas mitigation, 76% of which costs USD 50 Mg CO 2 e −1 or less.
The hidation of the Hwicce: Investigating its halving between the eighth century and 1086
The total hidage of land in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the Hwicce at its greatest extent appears to have been halved at an unknown date between the eighth century and the late eleventh. The article examines the relatively small number of surviving original texts of charters and leases which relate to land both in that kingdom and in all other parts of the kingdom of the Mercians into which it was at length subsumed. With other apparent instances …
A High Street Inheritance: Henley-in-Arden in 1419-20
The contents of a previously overlooked rental of the borough of Henley-in-Arden, composed in 1419–20 when the co-heirs to the Freville lands were trying to decide how to share out their inheritance, are presented and discussed. Rare in the combination of its extent and date, it provides an important view of tenurial arrangements in the borough in the aftermath of the plague outbreaks of the previous seventy years. Some elements of continuity can…
Identifying opportunity hot spots for reducing the risk of wildfire-caused carbon loss in western US conifer forests
The escalating climate and wildfire crises have generated worldwide interest in using proactive forest management (e.g. forest thinning, prescribed fire, cultural burning) to mitigate the risk of wildfire-caused carbon loss in forests. To estimate the risk of wildfire-caused carbon loss in western United States (US) conifer forests, we used a generalizable framework to evaluate interactions among wildfire hazard and carbon exposure and vulnerabil…
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