Proceedings of the Society's conference held at the University of York
in April 2002.
This book brings together the papers presented at the Society for
Medieval Archaeology's spring conference held in York in 2002. The
conference set out to reunite urban and rural archaeology. Papers define
the differences between town and country, compare the two ways of life,
trace the interconnecting links between townspeople and country
dwellers, and show how they interacted and influenced one another.
Contributors include archaeologists concerned with artefacts, buildings,
environment and regions, historical geographers working on urban space,
and historians interested in material culture.