Stuart Brookes

Biographic Data

ID5512768
NAMEStuart Brookes
GIVEN NAMESStuart
FAMILY NAMEBrookes
SIGNATUREBROOKES S
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • Geography and Sources

    Stephen Mileson, Stuart Brooke et al.CHAPTERPeasant Perceptions of Landscape2021

    The second chapter describes the physical character of the study area in detail as a framework for understanding the analysis supplied in the chapters to follow. It also sets out the main sources drawn upon in the book, notably the physical remains of archaeology and the fabric of the historic landscape itself, as well as documentary sources such as Anglo-Saxon charter bounds, manorial records, deeds, legal records, and maps, which yield data abo…

  • The Early Modern Period, 1530–1650

    Stephen Mileson, Stuart Brooke et al.CHAPTERPeasant Perceptions of Landscape2021

    The final main chapter looks at the early modern period, assessing how far it saw a ‘Reformation of the landscape’ and a secularization and commodification of the way land was valued as a resource. It is argued that, as earlier, a group sense of attachment to place was strongest in vibrant, socially ‘open’ settlements with considerable shared spaces, the kind of settlements found mainly in the vale part of the hundred. Village social space is exa…

  • Peasant perceptions of landscape Ewelme hundred, South Oxfordshire, 500-1650

    Stephen Mileson, Stuart Brooke et al.BOOKPeasant Perceptions of Landscape2021Cited by: 1

    This volume marks a change in the areas of landscape history and the history of everyday life, offering a sustained analysis of how ordinary medieval and early modern people experienced and perceived their material environment and constructed their identities in relation to the places they lived, focussing on the area of Ewelme hundred

  • Searching for the territorial origins of England

    Open AccessStuart Brooke, Stuart BrookesARTICLEAntiquity2019

    When the Normans arrived in England in AD 1066 they found a kingdom divided into a distinctive and complicated administrative geography. In compiling Domesday Book, the great survey of holdings and liabilities over much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086, the assessors grouped information firstly into 'shires'-districts that are in many cases the precursors of modern counties-and then into smaller divisions such as hundreds, wapentak…

  • Explaining Anglo-Saxon military efficiency

    Open AccessJ N L Baker, John Baker et al.ARTICLEAnglo-Saxon England2015

    The importance of warfare in Anglo-Saxon England is widely accepted, but the processes by which armies were put in the field are only partially understood, with most discussion focusing on the economic logistics rather than the spatial practicalities of mobilization. Yet such a system underpinned recorded military actions and must have evolved in response to changing military organization in the late Anglo-Saxon period. Through an assessment of d…

  • Identifying outdoor assembly sites in early medieval England

    J N L Baker, John Baker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology2015Cited by: 5References: 29

    Venues of outdoor assembly are an important type of archaeological site. Using the example of early medieval (Anglo-Saxon; 5th–11th centuries a.d.) meeting places in England we describe a new multidisciplinary method for identifying and characterizing such sites. This method employs place name studies, field survey, and phenomenological approaches such as viewshed, sound-mark, and landscape character recording. While each site may comprise a uniq…

  • Landscapes of Defence in Early Medieval Europe

    John T Baker, Andrew-Undifferentiated Reynolds et al.BOOKLandscapes of Defence in Early…2013

  • Beyond the Burghal Hidage

    J N L Baker, John Baker et al.BOOKBeyond the Burghal Hidage2013

    Takes the study of Anglo-Saxon civil defence away from traditional historical and archaeological fields, and uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine warfare and public responses to organised violence through their impact on the landscape.

  • Monumentalising the political landscape

    Open AccessJ N L Baker, John Baker et al.ARTICLEThe Antiquaries Journal2013Cited by: 4References: 10

    This paper outlines the place-name, archaeological and topographical evidence for a special class of Anglo-Saxon open-air assembly site, which we call a ‘hanging promontory’. Discussion of a series of these sites serves to describe the main characteristics of the class as well as their geographical distribution. Consideration is given to the possible functions and dating of the use of hanging promontories. In conclusion, comparisons are drawn wit…

  • Documenting the dead

    Open AccessStuart Brooke, Stuart Brookes et al.ARTICLEArchaeology International2012

    The fu nerary remains fr om east Ke nt constitute an important corpus of early Anglo-Saxon material, the recent reassessment of which has significantly advanced our understanding of Anglo Saxon communities in Ke nt

  • The Origins of Political Order and the Anglo-Saxon State

    Open AccessStuart Brooke, Stuart Brookes et al.ARTICLEArchaeology International2011

    How do ordered political societies come about – and what can archaeology offer to the debate? New research by a team at the UCL Institute of Archaeology is investigating the origins of English governance by exploring the impact on landscape of legal structures, law and order, and places of political assembly. Far from being shadowy and elusive, we argue that there is much that land-scape archaeology can provide to understand the ways in which pre…

  • The Origins of Political Order and the Anglo-Saxon State

    Open AccessStuart Brooke, Stuart Brookes et al.ARTICLEArchaeology International2011

  • The Landscape Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England

    Christopher Grocock, Nicholas J Higham et al.BOOKLandscape Archaeology of…2010

    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…

  • Walking with Anglo-Saxons

    Stuart Brooke, Stuart BrookesCHAPTERAnglo-Saxon Studies in…2007

  • Documenting the dead

    Open AccessStuart Brooke, Stuart Brookes et al.ARTICLEArchaeology International2005

  • Reflections on “The Archaeology of Inland Markets, Fairs and ‘Productive Sites’ c.650-850”, Worcester College, Oxford, 15th-17th December 2000

    Open AccessStuart Brooke, Stuart BrookesARTICLEPapers from the Institute of…2001

    Current interest in Middle Anglo-Saxon (c.CE 650-850) settlement topography, economics and archaeology is being reflected in a number of recently published papers.Former archaeological and theoretical foci on the large semi-or proto-urban trading settlements, known generically as either wics or emporia, such as have been located at London (Lundenwic), Ipswich, Saxon Southampton (Hamwic) and York (Eoforwic), have shifted to include the regional hi…

  • The Kent Anglo-Saxon Emporia Project (Kasep)

    Open AccessStuart Brooke, Stuart BrookesARTICLEPapers from the Institute of…2000

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