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Monastic Landscapes
Many monasteries were endowed with extensive properties to provide sustenance and income for the community. And as they were often wealthier than secular landlords, they were able to make major changes to the surrounding landscape. James Bond reconstructs, among other features, the towns, villages, agriculture, fisheries, and quarries all influenced by monastic power.
There is also a companion volume for Scotland, Scottish Monastic Landscapes by Derek Hall
There is also a companion volume for Scotland, Scottish Monastic Landscapes by Derek Hall
400 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2003
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About the author
James Bond
22 booksJames Bond BA, FSA, MCIfA is an associate of Kellogg College, University of Oxford.
James Bond was born in Oxford and trained as an historical geographer at the University of Birmingham, where he also gained his earliest experience in adult education, teaching part-time for the University’s Extra-Mural Department from 1966 to 1974.
In 1969 he was appointed to the new post of Archaeological Field Officer at Worcestershire County Museum. After five years in Worcestershire he then returned to Oxfordshire in 1974 to become Assistant Keeper of the Field Section of Oxfordshire Museum Services. At the same time he began a long association with what is now Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education as an external tutor. In addition to teaching various courses on landscape archaeology and local history throughout the region, he also served as a tutor on several of the Department’s Certificate and Diploma courses, in particular the Undergraduate Certificate (subsequently Diploma) in Archaeology from its inception in 1976 up to 2010 and the equivalent Local History Diploma from its beginnings in 1982 up to 2015.
In 1986 he left the museum profession and moved to North Somerset, where he has since worked freelance as a landscape archaeologist. However, he maintained his links with Oxford, continuing to contribute to the archaeology and local history diploma courses, various summer schools and occasional conferences, while also working part-time as a regular external tutor for the University of Bristol from 1986 to 2011 and undertaking occasional teaching for a dozen other English Universities. He retired from all regular teaching in 2015, but still gives occasional papers at conferences in England and abroad and occasional lectures to a wide range of non-university organisations.
His interests are inter-disciplinary and span many aspects of landscape evolution in Britain and continental Europe, but his own research has taken place mostly in the midlands and south-west of England, concentrating upon four main themes: medieval and post-medieval rural settlement and landscape; urban topography; medieval monastic precincts and estates; and park and garden history. He has published several books and numerous papers on these topics. His book Monastic Landscapes won the Council for British Archaeology’s Archaeological Book Award in 2004.
James Bond was born in Oxford and trained as an historical geographer at the University of Birmingham, where he also gained his earliest experience in adult education, teaching part-time for the University’s Extra-Mural Department from 1966 to 1974.
In 1969 he was appointed to the new post of Archaeological Field Officer at Worcestershire County Museum. After five years in Worcestershire he then returned to Oxfordshire in 1974 to become Assistant Keeper of the Field Section of Oxfordshire Museum Services. At the same time he began a long association with what is now Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education as an external tutor. In addition to teaching various courses on landscape archaeology and local history throughout the region, he also served as a tutor on several of the Department’s Certificate and Diploma courses, in particular the Undergraduate Certificate (subsequently Diploma) in Archaeology from its inception in 1976 up to 2010 and the equivalent Local History Diploma from its beginnings in 1982 up to 2015.
In 1986 he left the museum profession and moved to North Somerset, where he has since worked freelance as a landscape archaeologist. However, he maintained his links with Oxford, continuing to contribute to the archaeology and local history diploma courses, various summer schools and occasional conferences, while also working part-time as a regular external tutor for the University of Bristol from 1986 to 2011 and undertaking occasional teaching for a dozen other English Universities. He retired from all regular teaching in 2015, but still gives occasional papers at conferences in England and abroad and occasional lectures to a wide range of non-university organisations.
His interests are inter-disciplinary and span many aspects of landscape evolution in Britain and continental Europe, but his own research has taken place mostly in the midlands and south-west of England, concentrating upon four main themes: medieval and post-medieval rural settlement and landscape; urban topography; medieval monastic precincts and estates; and park and garden history. He has published several books and numerous papers on these topics. His book Monastic Landscapes won the Council for British Archaeology’s Archaeological Book Award in 2004.
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