{"title":"Robin Fleming","description":"Robin Fleming is Professor of History at Boston College, a Fellow of the London Society of Antiquaries, and a recipient of the MacArthur \"genius\" grant. She is author of Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise of the Middle Ages, 400-1070, among other works.","products":[{"product_id":"the-material-fall-of-roman-britain-300-525-ce-paperback","title":"The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough lowland Britain in 300 CE had been as Roman as any province in the empire, in the generations on either side of 400, urban life, the money economy, and the functioning state collapsed. Many of the most quotidian and fundamental elements of Roman-style material culture ceased to be manufactured. Skills related to iron and copper smelting, wooden board and plank making, stone quarrying, commercial butchery, horticulture, and tanning largely disappeared, as did the knowledge standing behind the production of wheel-thrown, kiln-fired pottery and building in stone. No other period in Britain's prehistory or history witnessed the loss of so many classes of once-common skills and objects. While the reasons for this breakdown remain unclear, it is indisputable the collapse was foundational in the making of a new world we characterize as early medieval. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe standard explanation for the emergence of the new-style material culture found in lowland Britain by the last quarter of the fifth century is that foreign objects were brought in by \"Anglo-Saxon\" settlers. Marshalling a wealth of archaeological evidence, Robin Fleming argues instead that not only Continental immigrants, but also the people whose ancestors had long lived in Britain built this new material world together from the ashes of the old, forging an identity that their descendants would eventually come to think of as English. As with most identities, she cautions, this was one rooted in neither birth nor blood, but historically constructed, and advanced and maintained over the generations by the shared material culture and practices that developed during and after Rome's withdrawal from Britain.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368733180127,"sku":"9781512828818","price":40.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/wG1cytQc7O9781512828818.webp?v=1789132310"},{"product_id":"thinking-with-dogs-in-roman-britain-lived-experience-inequality-and-ritual-in-a-roman-province-hardcover","title":"Thinking with Dogs in Roman Britain: Lived Experience, Inequality, and Ritual in a Roman Province - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThinking with Dogs in Roman Britain: Lived Experience, Inequality, and Ritual in a Roman Province \u003c\/em\u003eargues that in Roman Britain, where little written evidence survives, some aspects of the past are more visible when we look not at people but instead focus on the dogs nipping at their heels. By examining the evidence of more than 1,700 Roman-period dogs preserved in structured deposits that Fleming suggests are the remnants of ritual acts, she provides a history of the relationships between canines and people living in a provincial context. The book begins by investigating the lives of real dogs in Britain under Rome, some of which were pampered working or personal animals, but many of which had hard lives and had to fend for themselves. It then explores how the period's authors used both pampered dogs and strays as metaphors, shedding light on issues of hierarchy, inequality, and enslavement. Finally it then turns to the widespread use of dogs as a material of religion, investigating their role as sacrificial animals and ritual agents, first in temple and shrine rituals and then in everyday household religion. Fleming concludes by asking what dogs did for ritual and what they can tell us about the making of Roman provincial culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368979267807,"sku":"9780198938941","price":76.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/SiP2N8ipb49780198938941.webp?v=1789135992"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/robin-fleming.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}