...Previous research on metaphors of landscape has tended to focus on the landscape is a body metaphor, which appears in many, possibly all, of the world’s languages. This chapter uses data from the Mapping Metaphor project to identify the full range of landscape metaphors in English...

... centuries impacted upon the local English scene, and how the pre-existing landscape shaped Christianity into something that in its earliest stages was also regionally and locally varied. At the core of this chapter are the remarkable and striking juxtapositions of ancient Christian Church and prehistoric...

... questions whether distinctly ‘elite’, large-scale ritual ‘landscapes’ were forged in England over time, and whether these served the theatricalities of how and when late Anglo-Saxon kings were revealed to their subjects by means of itineraries, councils and assemblies, and religious festivals...

... by William Gilpin and others by mapping a historical appraisal onto physically neutral space and matter, the chapter demonstrates how space, landscape, and other physical phenomena can reveal sites of contest and controversy which reflect upon the fragile state of Britishness and nationhood more generally...

...Chapter 4 investigates the fundamentally mobile relationship of Tamang villagers to their landscape, the historically shifting geographical ranges of their transhumance cycles, the effects mobility has on their patterns of everyday life, and the kinds of productive affordances and animate presences...

...Chapter 2 explores the built landscape of Oriens, and deals with the important question of land tenure. Although it appears that wealthy elites were important landholders in the region, and that the salaried bureaucratic classes of the empire were both aggressive and successful at gaining control...

... to dispersal, then decreased movement across the landscape can have potentially adverse effects. This chapter reviews studies on the consequences of decreased movement: an increase in genetic divergence between isolated populations and a decrease in genetic diversity within isolated populations. It shows...

...The book has attempted to bring four seemingly different but, in fact, highly related strands together in order to explain to what extent telegraphic reporting transformed the press landscape in British India between 1880 and 1930 in order to forge an all-India public sphere. The telegraph and its...

...This chapter on poetry explores the “poetic landscape” of Mount Putuo, that is Mount Putuo as depicted in the poems of its visitors. Exhibit 1 from the early fourteenth century shows a poetic diction, which drew on both Daoist as well as Buddhist imagery to describe the site. Exhibit 2 presents...

.... Topics are approached sequentially, offering an overview of the role of trees and their products in material culture, in early medieval ontologies of wood and timber, within systems of Christian and pre-Christian belief, in the early medieval landscape, and in Anglo-Saxon art and literature. Each...

...This introductory chapter first discusses the importance of understanding the origins and development of local and regional variation in landscape character. It then sets out the book's purpose, which is to understand the origins and development of long-standing boundaries in landscape character...

...This chapter turns to the physical character of the historic landscape, in particular, the patterns of settlements depicted on the Ordnance Survey First Edition Six Inch maps of the 1880s. It proposes a typology of settlement patterns ranging from almost wholly nucleated in the lowlands of central...

...This chapter considers another aspect of the landscape of settlement: regional variation in vernacular architecture. The discussions cover changing house design in the late-medieval and post-medieval periods; a characterization of the vernacular architecture across the study area; and local...

... Garlandhayes in Clayhidon Cornwall Crewkerne Culmstock Kingstone Merriott Stocklinch Broadway Cruwys Morchard Devon hedgebanks Neroche Forest Curry Mallet field names lateral chimneystacks charter boundary clauses Braunton Devon Historic Landscape Characterisation Stockland landscape character...

... landscape character historic landscapes case studies early folk territories great estates Early folk territories, and the great estates into which they fragmented, have been reconstructed across the whole of eastern Devon, western Dorset, and southern Somerset (Fig. 9.1 ). The four that embraced most...

... Upottery Vancouver Charles Broadhembury tithe survey North Tawton Devon pollen sequences Broadwindsor Broadclyst Burlescombe Glastonbury Molland Common Exmoor Neolithic Templeton Devon land use regional farming farming practice South West England landscape character historic landscapes...

...This chapter introduces the concept of regional variation in landscape character and reviews past literature and current debates on the subject. The processes whereby cultural landscapes can change over time are reviewed. The strongly interdisciplinary approach of this book is introduced, along...

...This chapter examines the landscape of Somerset, which lies at the south‐western limit of landscapes that in the medieval period were characterized by villages and open fields. The topographical regions within the county are introduced, followed by a characterization of the historic landscape...

...This chapter focuses on the urban landscape in Caesarea Maritima (capital of Palestine), Sepphoris, and Gaza in late antiquity. Caesarea's gates, the scene of unburied and mutilated corpses of Christians at the dawn of the fourth century, formed an integral part of the urban layout. They embodied...

... archaeologies throughout the region, focusing on key developments in social modelling, landscape archaeology, and studies of identity. It examines the reasons why topics such as ethnicity, identity, and agency have preoccupied many British scholars; why such themes have had less resonance in Continental...