Staff Profile:Professor Grenville Astill

Name:

Professor Grenville Astill

Job Title:

Professor in Archaeology

Responsibilities:

Director MA Medieval Archaeology

Areas of Interest:

• Archaeology of Medieval Britain and Europe
• Medieval urban and rural issues
• Technology, industry and landscape

Postgraduate Supervision

Grenville welcomes the opportunity to work with PhD students in the areas of urbanisation, rural societies, monasticism, material culture and medieval industry. Please contact Professor Astill to discuss potential topics.

Research groups / Centres:

Social Archaeology Research Group

Key Facts:

Professor Grenville Astill teaches the archaeology of medieval Britain and Europe. His research interests centre on medieval urban and rural issues, monasticism, technology, industry and landscape archaeology.

Grenville is greatly involved in the MA Medieval Archaeology.

He is associated with two long-term research projects:

• The Bordesley Abbey Project, one of the longest running research programmes on a European medieval monastery, based on a Cistercian foundation in Worcestershire. He is currently bringing to publication an excavation in the area of the south cloister and an extensive archaeological and documentary survey of Bordesley's twenty granges which is one of the first attempts to use the material evidence in order to understand the character and dynamic of a monastic economy.

• The East Brittany Survey, designed to investigate the development of the landsape of an extensive area over the last two thousand years. The published results represent over twenty years of archaeological, architectural and documentary research.

Grenville's publications include the following volumes:

The Countryside of Medieval England (with A. Grant), 1988 and 1992;

A Medieval Industrial Complex and its Landscape: the Metalworking Watermills and Workshops of Bordesley Abbey. 1993 (winner of the Outstanding Fieldwork Project award of the Association for Industrial Archaeology for 1993)

The East Brittany Survey: Fieldwork and Field Data (with W. Davies) 1994

A Breton Landscape (with W. Davies), 1997

Medieval Farming and Technology. The Impact of Agricultural Change in Northwest Europe (with J. Langdon), 1997

He also contributed to the Cambridge Urban History of Britain, 2001

More recently I have become more interested in the social aspects of urbanisation and have also tried to integrate the documentary, archaeological and numismatic evidence for the eighth to twelfth centuries, as reflected in the following publications:

Community, Identity and the Later Anglo-Saxon Town', in W. Davies, G. Halsall and A. Reynolds (eds), People and Space in the Middle Ages, 300-1300, Turnhout, 2006, 233-54.

Anglo-Saxon attitudes: how should post-AD 700 burials be interpreted?' in D. Sayer and H. Williams (eds), Mortuary Practices and Social Identities in the Middle Ages, Exeter, 2009, 222-35.

Medieval Towns and Urbanization', in R. Gilchrist and A. Reynolds (eds), 1957-2007. SMA Anniversary Monograph, Leeds, 2009, 255-70

Forthcoming in 2010:

Exchange, coinage and the economy of early medieval England. In J. Escalona (ed), Scale and Scale Change in Western Europe in the First Millennium. Brepols.

Overview: Trade, Exchange and Urbanisation. In S. Crawford, H. Hamerow and D. Hinton (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology. OUP.

 

Publications:

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Number of items: 10.

2011

• Astill, G. (2011) Overview: trade, exchange and urbanization. In: Hamerow, H., Hinton, D. A. and Crawford, S. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology. Oxford Handbooks in Archaeology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 503-514. ISBN 9780199212149
• Astill, G. (2011) The changing monastic cloister: excavations in the south range of Bordesley Abbey. Archaeological Journal, 168. (In Press)
• Astill, G. (2011) Exchange, coinage and the economy of Early Medieval England. In: Escalona, J. and Reynolds, A. (eds.) Scale and Scale Change in the Early Middle Ages: Exploring landscape, local society and the world beyond. The Medieval Countryside (6). Brepols, Turnhout, pp. 253-272. ISBN 9782503532394

2010

• Astill, G. G. (2010) The long and the short: rural settlement in medieval England. In: Goddard, R., Langdon, J. and Müller, M. (eds.) Survival and Discord in Medieval Society. Essays in honour of Christopher Dyer. Brepols, Turnhout, pp. 11-28. ISBN 9782503528151

2009

• Astill, G. G. (2009) Anglo-Saxon attitudes: how should post-AD 700 burials be interpreted? In: Sayer, D. and Williams, H. (eds.) Mortuary Practices and Social Identities in the Middle Ages. University of Exeter Press, Exeter, pp. 222-235. ISBN 9780859898317
• Astill, G. G. (2009) Medieval towns and urbanization. In: Gilchrist, R. and Reynolds, A. (eds.) Reflections: 50 years of medieval archaeology, 1957-2007. Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs (30). Maney Publishing, Leeds, pp. 255-270. ISBN 9781906540715

2008

• Astill, G. (2008) Excavation of Yaudet in Ploulec'h, Cotes-d'Armor, Volume 3: 4th century b.c. to modern times. Antiquity, 82 (316). pp. 519-520. ISSN 0003-598X

2007

• Astill, G. (2007) Community identity and the later Anglo-Saxon town: the case of southern England. In: Davies, W., Halsall, G. and Reynolds, A. (eds.) People and Space in the Middle Ages, 300-1300. Brepols, Turnhout, pp. 233-254. ISBN 9782503515267

2006

• Astill, G. (2006) The Bordesley Abbey Granges monograph. Council for British Archaeology.

2005

• Astill, G. (2005) Chapter on Early medieval urban identities. In: Davies, W., Halsall, G. and Reynolds, A. (eds.) People and Spaces. York University Publications, York.

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Qualifications:

BA PhD (Birmingham), FSA