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The Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, built on the ruins of a Roman fort, dates from the mid-seventh century and is one of the oldest largely intact churches in England. It stands in splendid isolation on the shoreline at the mouth of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, where the land meets and interpenetrates with the sea and the sky. This book brings together contributors from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences to uncover the premodern contexts and modern resonances of this medieval building and its landscape setting. In analyzing the significance of the chapel and surrounding landscape over more than a thousand years, this collection additionally contributes to wider debates about the relationship between space and place, and particularly the interfaces between both medieval and modern cultures and also heritage and the natural environment.

England --- Essex (England) --- Essex, Eng. --- County of Essex (England) --- Social life and customs --- Antiquities.

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Anglo-Saxons --- Bronze age --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Essex (England) --- Antiquities. --- Essex, Eng. --- County of Essex (England) --- Saxons --- Civilization --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology

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Transformations of Identity and Society in Anglo-Saxon Essex: A Case Study of an Early Medieval North Atlantic Community presents the results of a comprehensive archaeological study of early medieval Essex (c.AD 400-1066). This region provides an important case study for examining coastal societies of north-western Europe. Drawing on a wealth of new data, the author demonstrates the profound influence of maritime contacts on changing expressions of cultural affiliation. It is argued that this Continental orientation reflects Essex's longterm engagement with the emergent, dynamic North Sea network. The wide chronological focus and inclusive dataset enables long-term socio-economic continuity and transformation to be revealed. These include major new insights into the construction of group identity in Essex between the 5th and 11th centuries and the identification of several previously unknown sites of exchange. The presentation also includes the first full archaeological study of Essex under 'Viking' rule.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Essex (England) --- Essex, Eng. --- County of Essex (England) --- Antiquities. --- Anglo-Saxons --- Saxons --- History. --- Anglo-Saxon, Archaeology, Trade, Identity, Essex.

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An exploration of small early folk communities prior to the eleventh century, showing their development and sophistication. All communities have a strong sense of identity with the area in which they live, which for England in the early medieval period manifested itself in a series of territorial entities, ranging from large kingdoms down to small districts known as pagi or regiones. This book investigates these small early folk territories, and the way that they evolved into the administrative units recorded in Domesday, across an entire kingdom - that of the East Saxons (broadly speaking, what is now Essex, Middlesex, most of Hertfordshire, and south Suffolk). A wide range of evidence is drawn upon, including archaeology, written documents, place-names and the early cartographic sources. The book looks in particular at the relationship between Saxon immigrants and the native British population, and argues that initially these ethnic groups occupied different parts of the landscape, until a dynasty which assumed an Anglo-Saxon identity achieved political ascendency (its members included the so-called "Prittlewell Prince", buried with spectacular grave-good in Prittlewell, near Southend-on- Sea in southern Essex). Other significant places discussed include London, the seat of the first East Saxon bishopric, the possible royal vills at Wicken Bonhunt near Saffron Walden and Maldon, and St Peter's Chapel at Bradwell-on-Sea, one of the most important surviving churches from the early Christian period.

Anglo-Saxons --- Saxons --- Essex (England) --- Antiquities. --- Essex, Eng. --- County of Essex (England) --- Anglo-Saxon identity. --- East Saxon Kingdom. --- archaeological remains. --- early folk communities. --- historical context. --- native British population. --- pagi. --- regiones. --- shire system. --- territorial entities. --- territorial evolution.

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This history of the English royal manor of Havering, Essex, illustrates life at one extreme of the spectrum of personal and collective freedom during the later Middle Ages, revealing the kinds of patterns which could emerge when medieval people were placed in a setting of unusual independence. As residents of a manor held by the crown, they profited from royal administrative neglect. As tenants of the ancient royal demesne, they had special legal rights and economic privileges. Havering's dominant families controlled the legal and administrative life of their community through the powerful manor court. The tenants combined effectively to prevent outside interference in their affairs, despite the individualistic self-interest manifest in their economic dealings. In 1465 the tenants obtained a royal charter which established Havering as a formal Liberty, with its own justices of the peace. By the end of the fifteenth century Havering displayed many characteristics commonly associated with the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.

Feudalism --- -Land tenure --- -Manors --- -Dwellings --- Real property --- Village communities --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Land use, Rural --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom --- Civilization, Medieval --- Land tenure --- Land use --- Chivalry --- Estates (Social orders) --- Case studies --- History --- -History --- -England --- England --- Essex (England) --- -Havering (London, England) --- -Economic conditions --- -Social conditions --- -Case studies --- Manors --- Dwellings --- Havering (London, England) --- Havering, Eng. --- London Borough of Havering (England) --- Essex, Eng. --- County of Essex (England) --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- History. --- Grondbezit. Essex. 1200-1500. --- Feodalisme. Essex. 1200-1500. --- Havering [Seigneurie]. Histoire économique et sociale. 1200-1500. --- Propriété foncière. Essex. 1200-1500. --- Féodalité. Essex. 1200-1500. --- Havering [Heerlijkheid]. Economisch en sociale geschiedenis. 1200-1500. --- Arts and Humanities