Roman Infrastructure in Early Medieval Britain

Download or read book Roman Infrastructure in Early Medieval Britain written by Mateusz Fafinski and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Medieval Britain is more Roman than we think. The Roman Empire left vast infrastructural resources on the island. These resources lay buried not only in dirt and soil, but also in texts, laws, chronicles - even charters, churches, and landscapes. This book uncovers them and shows how they shaped Early Medieval Britain. Infrastructure, material and symbolic, can work in ways that are not immediately obvious and exert an influence long after the builders have gone. Infrastructure can also rest dormant and be reactivated with a changed function, role and appearance. This is not a simple story of continuity and discontinuity: it is a story of transformation, of how the Roman infrastructural past was used and re-used, and also how it influenced the later societies of Britain.