JOHN BLAIR: Introduction
Part I: Waterways, Geography and Economy
1: FIONA EDMONDS: Barrier or Unifying Feature? Defining the Nature
of Early Medieval Water Transport in the North-West
2: DELLA HOOKE: Uses of Waterways in Anglo-Saxon England
3: ANN COLE: The Place-Name Evidence for Water Transport in Early
Medieval England
4: MARK GARDINER: Hythes, Small Ports and Other Landing Places in
Later Medieval England
5: JOHN LANGDON: The Efficiency of Inland Water Transport in
Medieval England
Part II: Improved Waterways and Canals
6: ED RHODES: Identifying Human Modification of River Channels
7: JAMES BOND: Canal Construction in the Early Middle Ages: an
Introductory Review
8: STEPHEN RIPPON: Waterways and Water Transport on Reclaimed
Coastal Marshlands: the Somerset Levels and Beyond
9: CHARLES and NANCY HOLLINRAKE: The Water Roads of Somerset
10: CHARLES and NANCY HOLLINRAKE: Glastonbury's Anglo-Saxon Canal
and Dunstan's Dyke
11: CHRISTOPHER K. CURRIE: Early Water Management on the Lower
River Itchen in Hampshire
12: JOHN BLAIR: Transport and Canal-Building on the Upper Thames,
1000-1300
John Blair is Lecturer in Modern History and Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at Queen's College, Oxford.
a volume full of insights which makes a stimulation introduction to an important subject. D. Harison, English Historical Review
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