Nicholas Brooks
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 558156 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nicholas Brooks |
| PRENOMES | Nicholas |
| SOBRENOME | Brooks |
| ASSINATURA | BROOKS N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5073-9386 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 533 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1964 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Language contacts in the development of ancient Egyptian
This article explores the unique linguistic features of early Egyptian, arguing that these characteristics are best explained by a period of intense and unusual linguistic contact in the prehistory of the language. Drawing on both linguistic and archaeological data, the study examines the socio-historical context of these contacts, linking them to the spread of pastoralism and the desertification of the Sahara during the 4th millennium BCE, and t…
Integrating power, justice and reflexivity into transformative climate change adaptation
Provides strong normative grounding for the idea and practice of transformative adaptation. • Contends that transformative adaptation requires transformation among those who implement interventions. • Presents four vectors of transformative adaptation as a reflexive form of organisational learning. • Highlights the importance of power, knowledge, coalitions and tradeoffs within programming. • Provides a clear guide to existing literature on trans…
Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries
This paper critically reviews the outcomes of internationally-funded interventions aimed at climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction. It highlights how some interventions inadvertently reinforce, redistribute or create new sources of vulnerability. Four mechanisms drive these maladaptive outcomes: (i) shallow understanding of the vulnerability context; (ii) inequitable stakeholder participation in both design and implementation; (iii…
African heritage in a changing climate
Climate change is a real and present threat to heritage across the world. In Europe and North America, research on the impacts of climate change on heritage, including how to mitigate against more frequent extreme weather events and how to implement efficient sustainable adaptation planning, are now key foci of heritage literature. In contrast, virtually nothing has been written about the impacts of climate change on heritage on the African conti…
Burial Practices in Western Sahara
Since 2002, the University of East Anglia’s Western Sahara Project has undertaken a series of field seasons in the POLISARIO-controlled areas or ‘Free Zone’ of Western Sahara (Fig. 11.1). This work has involved intensive survey and excavation in a 3 km by 4 km area north of the settlement of Tifariti, known as the TF1 study area (Fig. 11.2), and extensive survey throughout the Northern and Southern Sectors of the Free Zone. Fieldwork has focused …
Climatic changes and social transformations in the Near East and North Africa during the ‘long’ 4th millennium BC
This paper explores the possible links between rapid climate change (RCC) and social change in the Near East and surrounding regions (Anatolia, central Syria, southern Israel, Mesopotamia, Cyprus and eastern and central Sahara) during the ‘long’ 4th millennium (∼4500–3000) BC. Twenty terrestrial and 20 marine climate proxies are used to identify long-term trends in humidity involving transitions from humid to arid conditions and vice versa. The f…
Beyond collapse
The twenty-first century is likely to be characterised by large changes in regional climatic and environmental conditions, with implications for the availability and distribution of key resources such as water and productive land. While the implications of such changes for human societies are potentially profound, the empirical evidence base for understanding human–environment interactions focuses largely on the relatively recent past, during whi…
Environmental history and the understanding of causal relations
Environmental history and the understanding of causal relations Frank Sejersen a b , Kirsten Hastrup c , Nick Brooks d , Mats Widgren e , Laura Vang Rasmussen f & Mattias Borg Rasmussen g a Department of Anthropology, Waterworlds Research Centre, University of Copenhagen, Strandgade 102, DK-1401 Copenhagen K, Denmark b Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Waterworlds Research Centre, University of Copenhagen, Strandgade 102, DK-1401…
A Companion to the Early Middle Ages
This fine collaborative volume is the second (in chronological order) of nine ‘Blackwell Companions to British History’, the aim of which is to ‘synthesize current scholarship’ in a ‘clear, provocative and lively manner’ and to indicate for ‘an international audience of scholars, students and general readers’ where that scholarship ‘is heading’. Professor Stafford is to be congratulated on assembling a powerful team of twenty scholars of varying …
Why is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle About Kings
Research into the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the last generation has concentrated upon editing the different versions found in the extant manuscripts and on interpreting their differences. That has caused some neglect of the features that all manuscripts share, namely their remarkable preoccupation with the deeds of English kings and with the assertion of English identity – features characteristic both of the Chronicle's ‘common stock’ down to c . …
The archaeology of Western Sahara
Western Sahara has one of the last remaining unexplored prehistories on the planet. The new research reported here reveals a sequence of Holocene occupation beginning in a humid period around 9000 bp, superceded around 5000 bp by an arid phase in which the land was mainly given over to pastoralism and monumental burial. The authors summarise the flint and pottery assemblage and classify the monuments, looking to neighbouring cultures in Niger, Li…
The Port of Medieval London
Journal Article The Port of Medieval London Get access The Port of Medieval London, by Gustav Milne (Stroud: Tempus Publishing, 2003; pp. 192. Pb. £17.99). Nicholas Brooks Nicholas Brooks University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXII, Issue 498, September 2007, Pages 1072–1073, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cem196 Published: 01 September 2007
Bridges, Law and Power in Medieval England, 700-1400
Journal Article Bridges, Law and Power in Medieval England, 700-1400 Get access Bridges, Law and Power in Medieval England, 700–1400, by Alan Cooper (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2006; pp. 185. £45). N.P. Brooks N.P. Brooks University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXII, Issue 499, December 2007, Pages 1367–1370, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cem333 Published:…
Cultural responses to aridity in the Middle Holocene and increased social complexity
The Bridges of Medieval England
The Bridges of Medieval England: Transport and Society, 400–1800, by David Harrison (Oxford: Clarendon P., 2004; pp. xiv + 249. £45). This is an impressive and beautifully written book with a remarkable chronological range. It is a testimony to the fundamental quality of the underlying 1996 doctoral thesis, to the author's ability to remain abreast of scholarship around his subject while employed as a House of Commons clerk and to the wider perce…
The determinants of vulnerability and adaptive capacity at the national level and the implications for adaptation
Cultural heritage and conflict
Little archaeological research has been conducted in Western Sahara as a result of the territorial conflict between Morocco, which occupies some 80 per cent of the territory, and the Frente Polisario independence movement, which administers the remainder of the territory from the Saharawi refugee camps in southwestern Algeria. While some archaeological studies have been undertaken recently, there has been no recent excavation, or dating of archae…
The climate-environment-society nexus in the Sahara from prehistoric times to the present day
The Sahara is a key region for studies of archaeology, human-environment interaction, global biogeochemical cycles, and global climate change. With a few notable exceptions, the region is the subject of very little international scientific research, a fact that is remarkable given the Sahara's proximity to Europe, the developmental issues facing its growing population, the region's sensitivity to climate change and the Sahara's potential for infl…
Monitoring vegetation change in desert oases by remote sensing; a case study in the Libyan Fazzān
Desert oases are undergoing rapid changes in response to environmental, economic and social pressures. The Wādī al-Hayāt, in the Libyan Fazzān, illustrates these changes and exemplifies some of the processes at work. Human activity in the area is dependent on groundwater extraction. Introduction of mechanical pumps and modern irrigation technology has enabled significant expansion of irrigated area, but environmental problems have arisen as a res…
Communities and Warfare, 700-1400
Medieval European bridges the development of military obligations in 8th- and 9th-century England England in the 9th century - the crucible of defeat reflection on the Viking-age silver hoard from Croydon, Surrey the unidentified forts of the Burghal Hidage the administrative background to the Burghal Hidage arms, status and warfare in late Saxon England arms and armour in the battle of Maldon the authority and interpretation of the Bayeux tapest…
The Fezzan Project 2001
The Fezzan Project completed its five-year fieldwork cycle in 2001. The geographical research team located numerous additional palaeolake sites within the Edeyen Ubari, using a combination of Remote Sensing technology and field visits. Additional samples were taken for analysis and dating from many lake edge locations, relating to both the large Pleistocene lake and to the numerous smaller Holocene lakes that have been identified by the team. The…
The Fezzan Project 2000
The fourth season of the Fezzan Project continued the interdisciplinary approaches of previous seasons. Geographical and environmental work focused principally in sampling sediments for scientific dating and with integrating ground observation with remote sensing data. Excavations continued at Old Germa, where the site has now reached Garamantian levels. In a separate development, the tentative identification has been made of an early mosque at t…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access N. P. BROOKS N. P. BROOKS University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 451, April 1998, Pages 401–402, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.451.401 Published: 01 April 1998
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access NICHOLAS BROOKS NICHOLAS BROOKS University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 449, November 1997, Pages 1227–1229, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.449.1227 Published: 01 November 1997
Latin and the vernacular languages in early medieval Britain
The determinants of vulnerability and adaptive capacity at the national level and the implications for adaptation
Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries
This paper critically reviews the outcomes of internationally-funded interventions aimed at climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction. It highlights how some interventions inadvertently reinforce, redistribute or create new sources of vulnerability. Four mechanisms drive these maladaptive outcomes: (i) shallow understanding of the vulnerability context; (ii) inequitable stakeholder participation in both design and implementation; (iii…
The climate-environment-society nexus in the Sahara from prehistoric times to the present day
The Sahara is a key region for studies of archaeology, human-environment interaction, global biogeochemical cycles, and global climate change. With a few notable exceptions, the region is the subject of very little international scientific research, a fact that is remarkable given the Sahara's proximity to Europe, the developmental issues facing its growing population, the region's sensitivity to climate change and the Sahara's potential for infl…
African heritage in a changing climate
Climate change is a real and present threat to heritage across the world. In Europe and North America, research on the impacts of climate change on heritage, including how to mitigate against more frequent extreme weather events and how to implement efficient sustainable adaptation planning, are now key foci of heritage literature. In contrast, virtually nothing has been written about the impacts of climate change on heritage on the African conti…
Beyond collapse
The twenty-first century is likely to be characterised by large changes in regional climatic and environmental conditions, with implications for the availability and distribution of key resources such as water and productive land. While the implications of such changes for human societies are potentially profound, the empirical evidence base for understanding human–environment interactions focuses largely on the relatively recent past, during whi…
Cultural heritage and conflict
Little archaeological research has been conducted in Western Sahara as a result of the territorial conflict between Morocco, which occupies some 80 per cent of the territory, and the Frente Polisario independence movement, which administers the remainder of the territory from the Saharawi refugee camps in southwestern Algeria. While some archaeological studies have been undertaken recently, there has been no recent excavation, or dating of archae…
Planning and Growth in the Medieval Scottish Burgh
N. P. Brooks, G. Whittington, Planning and Growth in the Medieval Scottish Burgh: The Example of St Andrews, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 2, No. 3, Change in the Town (1977), pp. 278-295
England in the Ninth Century
Historians, particularly medieval historians, are vulnerable to the charge that they concentrate their attention upon success—on the successful dynasties, institutions and ideas—and that they thereby misrepresent the past. Thus the political historian sees the ninth century as the crucial period in the evolution of a unitary English kingdom. The four powerful and independent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms existing in 800—Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia an…
Why is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle About Kings
Research into the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the last generation has concentrated upon editing the different versions found in the extant manuscripts and on interpreting their differences. That has caused some neglect of the features that all manuscripts share, namely their remarkable preoccupation with the deeds of English kings and with the assertion of English identity – features characteristic both of the Chronicle's ‘common stock’ down to c . …
The Fezzan Project 2001
The Fezzan Project completed its five-year fieldwork cycle in 2001. The geographical research team located numerous additional palaeolake sites within the Edeyen Ubari, using a combination of Remote Sensing technology and field visits. Additional samples were taken for analysis and dating from many lake edge locations, relating to both the large Pleistocene lake and to the numerous smaller Holocene lakes that have been identified by the team. The…
The archaeology of Western Sahara
Western Sahara has one of the last remaining unexplored prehistories on the planet. The new research reported here reveals a sequence of Holocene occupation beginning in a humid period around 9000 bp, superceded around 5000 bp by an arid phase in which the land was mainly given over to pastoralism and monumental burial. The authors summarise the flint and pottery assemblage and classify the monuments, looking to neighbouring cultures in Niger, Li…
Integrating power, justice and reflexivity into transformative climate change adaptation
Provides strong normative grounding for the idea and practice of transformative adaptation. • Contends that transformative adaptation requires transformation among those who implement interventions. • Presents four vectors of transformative adaptation as a reflexive form of organisational learning. • Highlights the importance of power, knowledge, coalitions and tradeoffs within programming. • Provides a clear guide to existing literature on trans…
Communities and Warfare, 700-1400
Medieval European bridges the development of military obligations in 8th- and 9th-century England England in the 9th century - the crucible of defeat reflection on the Viking-age silver hoard from Croydon, Surrey the unidentified forts of the Burghal Hidage the administrative background to the Burghal Hidage arms, status and warfare in late Saxon England arms and armour in the battle of Maldon the authority and interpretation of the Bayeux tapest…
Monitoring vegetation change in desert oases by remote sensing; a case study in the Libyan Fazzān
Desert oases are undergoing rapid changes in response to environmental, economic and social pressures. The Wādī al-Hayāt, in the Libyan Fazzān, illustrates these changes and exemplifies some of the processes at work. Human activity in the area is dependent on groundwater extraction. Introduction of mechanical pumps and modern irrigation technology has enabled significant expansion of irrigated area, but environmental problems have arisen as a res…
The Fezzan Project 2000
The fourth season of the Fezzan Project continued the interdisciplinary approaches of previous seasons. Geographical and environmental work focused principally in sampling sediments for scientific dating and with integrating ground observation with remote sensing data. Excavations continued at Old Germa, where the site has now reached Garamantian levels. In a separate development, the tentative identification has been made of an early mosque at t…
Anglo-Saxon charters
1973 is an auspicious year for the study of the charters of the pre-Conquest period. At the time of writing, the publication of Professor A. Campbell's Anglo-Saxon Charters I, The Charters of Rochester is imminent. This is the first volume in a series in which the entire corpus of pre-Conquest charters is to be edited with full critical apparatus, with detailed analysis of their diplomatic, palaeographical, topographical and linguistic features a…
The Unidentified Forts of the Burghal Hidage
(1964). The Unidentified Forts of the Burghal Hidage. Medieval Archaeology: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 74-90
The Unidentified Forts of the Burghal Hidage
(1964). The Unidentified Forts of the Burghal Hidage. Medieval Archaeology: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 74-90
Anglo-Saxon charters
1973 is an auspicious year for the study of the charters of the pre-Conquest period. At the time of writing, the publication of Professor A. Campbell's Anglo-Saxon Charters I, The Charters of Rochester is imminent. This is the first volume in a series in which the entire corpus of pre-Conquest charters is to be edited with full critical apparatus, with detailed analysis of their diplomatic, palaeographical, topographical and linguistic features a…
Anglo-Saxon Charters, 1
Journal Article Anglo-Saxon Charters, 1: The Charters of Rochester (Oxford: U.P., for the British Academy, 1973, £5) Get access Anglo-Saxon Charters, 1: The Charters of Rochester. (Oxford: U.P., for the British Academy, 1973. £5) N. P. Brooks N. P. Brooks St Salvator's CollegeSt Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XC, Issue CCCLVI, July 1975, Pages 626-b–627, https…
Planning and Growth in the Medieval Scottish Burgh
N. P. Brooks, G. Whittington, Planning and Growth in the Medieval Scottish Burgh: The Example of St Andrews, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 2, No. 3, Change in the Town (1977), pp. 278-295
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access N. P. BROOKS N. P. BROOKS University of St Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIII, Issue CCCLXVII, April 1978, Pages 428–429, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIII.CCCLXVII.428 Published: 01 April 1978
England in the Ninth Century
Historians, particularly medieval historians, are vulnerable to the charge that they concentrate their attention upon success—on the successful dynasties, institutions and ideas—and that they thereby misrepresent the past. Thus the political historian sees the ninth century as the crucial period in the evolution of a unitary English kingdom. The four powerful and independent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms existing in 800—Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia an…
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access N. P. BROOKS N. P. BROOKS University of St Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVIII, Issue CCCLXXXVI, January 1983, Pages 181–182, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVIII.CCCLXXXVI.181 Published: 01 January 1983
A new charter of King Edgar
The document printed below, an early- or mid-seventeenth-century copy of a hitherto unrecorded charter of 963 by which King Edgar granted 5 hides at Ballidon in Derbyshire to a certain Æthelferth (see pl. XIV), came to light early in 1983 among some manuscripts on temporary deposit at the Staffordshire Record Office. It is published by kind permission of the depositor. The account of the provenance of the charter and of the history of the estate,…
Latin and the Vernacular Languages in Early Medieval Britain
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access N. P. BROOKS N. P. BROOKS University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CI, Issue CCCXCIX, April 1986, Pages 472-a–472, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CI.CCCXCIX.472-a Published: 01 April 1986
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access N. P. BROOKS N. P. BROOKS University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CII, Issue 403, April 1987, Pages 460-a–460, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CII.403.460-a Published: 01 April 1987
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access N. P. BROOKS N. P. BROOKS University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIII, Issue CCCCVI, January 1988, Pages 163–164, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIII.CCCCVI.163 Published: 01 January 1988
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access N. P. BROOKS N. P. BROOKS University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIII, Issue CCCCVII, April 1988, Pages 471–472, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIII.CCCCVII.471 Published: 01 April 1988
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access N. P. BROOKS N. P. BROOKS University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIV, Issue CCCCXII, July 1989, Pages 713–714, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIV.CCCCXII.713 Published: 01 July 1989
The Anglo-Saxon Achievement
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access NICHOLAS BROOKS NICHOLAS BROOKS University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 449, November 1997, Pages 1227–1229, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.449.1227 Published: 01 November 1997
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access N. P. BROOKS N. P. BROOKS University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 451, April 1998, Pages 401–402, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.451.401 Published: 01 April 1998
The Fezzan Project 2000
The fourth season of the Fezzan Project continued the interdisciplinary approaches of previous seasons. Geographical and environmental work focused principally in sampling sediments for scientific dating and with integrating ground observation with remote sensing data. Excavations continued at Old Germa, where the site has now reached Garamantian levels. In a separate development, the tentative identification has been made of an early mosque at t…
Communities and Warfare, 700-1400
Medieval European bridges the development of military obligations in 8th- and 9th-century England England in the 9th century - the crucible of defeat reflection on the Viking-age silver hoard from Croydon, Surrey the unidentified forts of the Burghal Hidage the administrative background to the Burghal Hidage arms, status and warfare in late Saxon England arms and armour in the battle of Maldon the authority and interpretation of the Bayeux tapest…
The Fezzan Project 2001
The Fezzan Project completed its five-year fieldwork cycle in 2001. The geographical research team located numerous additional palaeolake sites within the Edeyen Ubari, using a combination of Remote Sensing technology and field visits. Additional samples were taken for analysis and dating from many lake edge locations, relating to both the large Pleistocene lake and to the numerous smaller Holocene lakes that have been identified by the team. The…
Monitoring vegetation change in desert oases by remote sensing; a case study in the Libyan Fazzān
Desert oases are undergoing rapid changes in response to environmental, economic and social pressures. The Wādī al-Hayāt, in the Libyan Fazzān, illustrates these changes and exemplifies some of the processes at work. Human activity in the area is dependent on groundwater extraction. Introduction of mechanical pumps and modern irrigation technology has enabled significant expansion of irrigated area, but environmental problems have arisen as a res…
The determinants of vulnerability and adaptive capacity at the national level and the implications for adaptation
Cultural heritage and conflict
Little archaeological research has been conducted in Western Sahara as a result of the territorial conflict between Morocco, which occupies some 80 per cent of the territory, and the Frente Polisario independence movement, which administers the remainder of the territory from the Saharawi refugee camps in southwestern Algeria. While some archaeological studies have been undertaken recently, there has been no recent excavation, or dating of archae…
The climate-environment-society nexus in the Sahara from prehistoric times to the present day
The Sahara is a key region for studies of archaeology, human-environment interaction, global biogeochemical cycles, and global climate change. With a few notable exceptions, the region is the subject of very little international scientific research, a fact that is remarkable given the Sahara's proximity to Europe, the developmental issues facing its growing population, the region's sensitivity to climate change and the Sahara's potential for infl…
Cultural responses to aridity in the Middle Holocene and increased social complexity
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