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West Midlands (England) --- Social conditions --- Maps --- -Social conditions --- -Maps --- Maps. --- -West Midlands, Eng. --- West Midlands (England : Metropolitan County) --- West Midlands (England : Region) --- West Midlands County (England) --- County of West Midlands (England) --- West Midlands Region (England) --- Herefordshire (England) --- Shropshire (England) --- Staffordshire (England) --- Worcestershire (England) --- Warwickshire (England) --- West Midlands (England) - Social conditions - Maps --- ROYAUME-UNI --- GEOGRAPHIE URBAINE --- BIRMINGHAM --- AGGLOMERATIONS

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"The West Midlands has struggled archaeologically to project a distinct regional identity, having largely been defined by reference to other areas with a stronger cultural identity and history, such as Wessex the South-West, and the North. Only occasionally has the West Midlands come to prominence, for instance in the middle Saxon period (viz. the kingdom of Mercia), or, much later, with rural south Shropshire being the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. Yet it is a region rich in natural mineral resources, set amidst readily productive farmland, and with major rivers, such as the Severn, facilitating transportation. The scale of its later prehistoric monuments, notably the hillforts, proclaims the centralisation of some functions, whether for security, exchange or emulation, while society supported the production and widespread distribution of specialised craft goods. Finally, towards the close of prehistory, localised kingdoms can be seen to emerge into view. In the course of reviewing the evidence for later prehistory from the Middle Bronze Age to Late Iron Age, the papers presented here adopt a variety of approaches, being either regional, county-wide, or thematic (eg. by site type, or artefactual typology), and they also encompass the wider landscape as reconstructed from environmental evidence. This is the second volume in a series--The Making of the West Midlands--that explores the archaeology of the English West Midlands region from the Lower Palaeolithic onwards. These volumes, based on a series of West Midlands Research Framework seminars, aim to transform perceptions of the nature and significance of the archaeological evidence across a large part of central Britain"--Publisher description.

Bronze age --- Iron age --- Prehistoric peoples --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Landscape archaeology --- Social archaeology --- Archaeology --- Cultural landscapes --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) --- Early man --- Man, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistoric human beings --- Prehistoric humans --- Prehistory --- Human beings --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Civilization --- Methodology --- West Midlands (England) --- West Midlands, Eng. --- West Midlands (England : Metropolitan County) --- West Midlands (England : Region) --- West Midlands County (England) --- County of West Midlands (England) --- West Midlands Region (England) --- Herefordshire (England) --- Shropshire (England) --- Staffordshire (England) --- Worcestershire (England) --- Warwickshire (England) --- Antiquities. --- Primitive societies

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The medieval English West Midlands has long been associated with the production of vernacular texts, in Old and Middle English, and with the making of several famous manuscripts. The aim of this volume is to re-think assumptions about medieval literature and the region in the light of new research in medieval book history. A series of specially commissioned essays in ‘manuscript geography’ examines the making and use of texts and books in relation to cultural networks in the region and beyond. Included are case studies of manuscripts of Worcester and the Worcester diocese from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries; investigations of manuscript production in fourteenth-century Shropshire and its wider regional links; and essays on textual cultures in Warwickshire from the activities of the aristocrats and gentry of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to the projects of later antiquarians. Essays in the final section of the volume reflect on the possibilities of large-scale, corpus-based research on medieval manuscript books. Collectively the essays identify and explore some of the investments of traditional regionalist accounts of vernacular literary culture and model new theoretical and methodological approaches.

Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Manuscripts, English (Old) --- Manuscripts, English --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Books --- Books and reading --- Manuscript preparation (Authorship) --- History. --- History --- British Library. --- West Midlands (England) --- Intellectual life. --- 091 <41> --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 091 <41> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Medieval manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- English manuscripts --- Anglo-Saxon manuscripts --- English manuscripts, Old --- Manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon --- Manuscripts, Old English --- Old English manuscripts --- English manuscripts (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Middle English --- Middle English manuscripts --- Preparation of manuscripts (Authorship) --- Authorship --- Editing --- Printing --- Word processing --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Appraisal of books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- British Museum. --- West Midlands, Eng. --- West Midlands (England : Metropolitan County) --- West Midlands (England : Region) --- West Midlands County (England) --- County of West Midlands (England) --- West Midlands Region (England) --- Herefordshire (England) --- Shropshire (England) --- Staffordshire (England) --- Worcestershire (England) --- Warwickshire (England) --- England --- West Midlands --- Manuscripts [English ] (Middle) --- Manuscripts [English ] (Old) --- Manuscripts [Medieval ] --- Intellectual life --- English language --- books --- manuscripts [documents] --- history [discipline] --- anno 1000-1099 --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1100-1199 --- West Midlands [region] --- Art --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) - England - West Midlands - History. --- Manuscripts, English (Old) - England - West Midlands - History. --- Manuscripts, English - History - To 1500. --- Manuscripts, Medieval - England - History. --- Manuscripts, Medieval - England - West Midlands - History. --- Books - England - History - 400-1450. --- Books and reading - England - West Midlands - History. --- Books and reading - England - History - To 1500. --- Manuscript preparation (Authorship) - England - West Midlands - History. --- West Midlands (England) - Intellectual life.