Table of Contents

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

About the Author

John Blair is Lecturer in Modern History and Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at Queen's College, Oxford.

Reviews

a volume full of insights which makes a stimulation introduction to an important subject. D. Harison, English Historical Review