Oliver Creighton

Transforming Townscapes details the results of a major archaeological project based on and around the historic town of Wallingford in south Oxfordshire. Founded in the late Saxon period as a key defensive and administrative focus next to the Thames, the settlement also contained a substantial royal castle established shortly after the Norman Conquest. The volume traces the pre-town archaeology of Wallingford and then analyses the town’s physical and social evolution, assessing defences, churches, housing, markets, material culture, coinage, communications and hinterland.

A wide-ranging and accessibly written account of designed medieval landscapes. The phrase "designed landscape" is generally associated with the great parks and gardens of the post-medieval period, with grand country houses surrounded by parkland, such as Chatsworth and Longleat. However, recent research hasmade it clear that its origins lie much further back than that, in the middle ages, and numerous examples have been identified. This book offers the first full-length survey of designed medieval landscapes, not just the settings for castles, but for palaces, manor houses and monastic institutions. Gardens and pleasure grounds gave their owners sensory enjoyment; lakes, ponds and walkways created routes of approach that displayed residences to best effect;deer parks were stunning backdrops and venues for aristocratic enjoyment; and peacocks, swans, rabbits and doves were some of the many species which lent these landscapes their elite appearance. Richly illustrated with plans, maps, and photographs of key sites showing what can still be seen today. Oliver H. Creighton is Associate Professor in Archaeology, University of Exeter .

Das Buch bietet für den deutschsprachigen Bereich erstmals eine wirtschaftliche und technische Betrachtung und Analyse eines immer wichtiger werdenden Modells der Softwareentwicklung und -lizenzierung. Es gibt zunächst eine Übersicht über den deutschen Softwaremarkt, stellt dann die verschiedenen Erscheinungsformen von Open-Source-Software (OSS) dar, beleuchtet die technischen Aspekte der Erstellung und des Einsatzes von OSS und analysiert sowohl die Motivation von Privatpersonen als auch von Unternehmen OSS zu entwickeln und einzusetzen. Insbesondere werden auch die wettbewerbsstrategischen und die betriebswirtschaftlichen Dimensionen dieser sich rasch ausbreitenden Vorgehensweise erörtert. Darauf aufbauend werden die wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen von OSS auf die deutsche Softwareindustrie sowie wirtschaftspolitische Aspekte von OSS untersucht.

Medieval castles were, alongside the great cathedrals, the most recognisable buildings of the medieval world. Closely associated with concepts of justice, lordship and authority as well as military might, castles came to encapsulate the period's very essence. Looking at above and below-ground evidence and examining a wide variety of sites - from towering donjons to earth and timber castles - in different parts of western Europe, this book explores the relationship between early castle building and the emergence of a new aristocracy and investigates the impact of authority on the organisation of the landscape.A particular focus is on the social context of early private fortifications: Europe’s earliest castles came to embody a new and radically different form of power – an aristocratic authority that was highly personal in nature, glaringly visible in its presence, and enforceable through violence, both threatened and real. The volume reassesses traditional models of castle origins; examines aspects of elite lifestyle in and around these structures, including pastimes and diet; considers medieval visual experiences of sites and their settings; and explores some future directions for research.

Britain's town walls have been neglected. For the first time the authors draw together a variety of evidence to reveal the chronologies, functions, structures and social significance of urban defences. They show that the walls and their related structures are a mixture of military pragmatism, commercial logic and symbolism.

Das Buch bietet für den deutschsprachigen Bereich erstmals eine wirtschaftliche und technische Betrachtung und Analyse eines immer wichtiger werdenden Modells der Softwareentwicklung und -lizenzierung. Es gibt zunächst eine Übersicht über den deutschen Softwaremarkt, stellt dann die verschiedenen Erscheinungsformen von Open-Source-Software (OSS) dar, beleuchtet die technischen Aspekte der Erstellung und des Einsatzes von OSS und analysiert sowohl die Motivation von Privatpersonen als auch von Unternehmen OSS zu entwickeln und einzusetzen. Insbesondere werden auch die wettbewerbsstrategischen und die betriebswirtschaftlichen Dimensionen dieser sich rasch ausbreitenden Vorgehensweise erörtert. Darauf aufbauend werden die wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen von OSS auf die deutsche Softwareindustrie sowie wirtschaftspolitische Aspekte von OSS untersucht.