Making a Christian Landscape: The Countryside in Early-Medieval Cornwall, Devon and Wessex

Making a Christian Landscape is an important new interpretation of early medieval patterns of landscape development.

Sam Turner's new book traces landscape change in south-west Britian from the introduction of Christianity to the Norman Conquest (AD c. 450-1070). It stresses the significance of political and religious ideology in both the 'Celtic' west (especially Cornwall) and the 'Anglo-Saxon' east (especially the Wessex counties of Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire and Dorset). Combining …