Stories from the Edge

Creating Identities in Early Medieval Staffordshire

By: Matthew Blake

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Paperback | 28 July 2020

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142 Pages

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‘It is a particularly good demonstration of how an “unpromising” landscape might be made to speak quite eloquently when different kinds of evidence are considered together and coupled with new ways of seeing.’ Dr Andrew Sargent, Keele University

‘This is a very exciting study, from which I learnt a lot.’ Dr Amanda Richardson, University of Chichester

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