Medieval Rural Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology Across Europe

Contents

Key organisations and contributor biographies

Foreword

Introduction: Exploring the impact of infrastructure archaeology on medieval rural settlement remains across Europe – Carenza Lewis, with Neil Christie, Gareth Davies and Aidan O’Sullivan

Infrastructure archaeology and medieval rural settlement in Austria – Claudia Theune and Eva Steigberger

The impact of infrastructure archaeology on knowledge and understanding of medieval rural settlement in Bulgaria, with case studies from Vidin region – Zdravko Dimitrov and Elena Vasileva (with contributions by Carenza Lewis)

Infrastructure archaeology and medieval rural settlements in Croatia – Andrej Janeš

Infrastructure Archaeology and Research on Inhabited Rural Settlements in the Czech Republic – Pavel Vařeka, Petr Lissek, Petr Netolický and David Novák

Infrastructure archaeology and medieval rural settlement in Denmark – Mette Svart Kristiansen

Assess, Dig, Avoid: reflections on the contribution of linear infrastructure projects in advancing an understanding of medieval settlement in England, 2000–23 – Richard Newman with Carenza Lewis

Infrastructure archaeology and medieval rural settlement in the former County of Flanders (western Flanders, Belgium) – Ewoud Deschepper, Wim De Clercq, Floris Beke, Johan Hoorne and Gerben Verbrugghe

A new reading of the fabric of the village: the contribution of preventive archaeology to the knowledge of rural settlements of the Early Middle Ages in France – Edith Peytremann

Infrastructure projects, rural development and medieval settlement archaeology in southern and western Germany – Rainer Schreg and Aline Kottmann

Large-scale Infrastructure Archaeology and Medieval Rural Settlement in Hungary – Tibor Ákos Rácz and Edit Sárosi

Early Medieval Rural Settlement Archaeology in Ireland and the Impact of Large Infrastructural Developments – Aidan O’Sullivan and Rónán Swan

Major Modern Infrastructure Projects and the Archaeology of the Middle Ages in Rural Italy – Paul Arthur

The impact of large infrastructure projects on the state of knowledge about the development of medieval rural settlements in Poland – Paweł Duma

Medieval Rural Settlement, Infrastructure Projects and Commercial Development: The Scottish Experience – John A. Atkinson

Infrastructure Archaeology and Medieval Settlements in Spain: A Partial Review – Jesús Fernández Fernández and Gabriel Moshenska

Roads to ruin – or restitution? The impact of infrastructure-led archaeology on rural medieval settlement across Europe – Carenza Lewis, Neil Christie, Gareth Davies and Aidan O’Sullivan

About the Author

Carenza Lewis is Professor of Public Engagement with Research at the University of Lincoln, having formerly been archaeological investigator with the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, research fellow at Birmingham University, and director of Access Cambridge Archaeology at Cambridge University.

Neil Christie is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Leicester, UK, where he has been based since 1992.

Gareth Davies is Technical Director at SLR Consulting and an Honorary Research Fellow in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Nottingham.

Aidan O’Sullivan is Professor of Archaeology and Head of UCD School of Archaeology, at University College Dublin.