Stephen Rippon is Professor of Landscape Archaeology at the University of Exeter with strongly interdisciplinary research interests in the landscapes of Roman and medieval Britain, regional variation in landscape character, and using the techniques of historic landscape analysis to explore how the countryside of today has come into being. He is a recent Dean of Graduate Research at the University of Exeter, and past president of the Medieval Settlement Research Group and Treasurer of the Society for Medieval Archaeology.
1: Introduction: The Evolution of Territorial Identities in the English Landscape
2: Iron Age Landscape, Society and Regionality: The Material Culture
3: Iron Age Landscape and Society: The Settlement Patterns
4: The Romano-British Urban and Religious Landscape
5: The Romano-British Rural Landscape of the Land-Owning Elite
6: Romano-British Material Culture
7: Kingdoms and Regiones: The Documentary Evidence
8: Anglo-Saxon Colonization
9: Regional Identities: Angles and Saxons?
10: The Native British
11: Regionality Under The New Order: The Seventh to Tenth Centuries
12: The Boundaries of Early Medieval Kingship
13: Conclusions