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Outreach

outreach at kibworthOur Outreach team takes archaeology workshops and talks out to schools and colleges in the county. It also runs Masterclasses and workshops on campus and in the department. We've also worked with the army on Project Nightingale at Caerwent. Find out more on what we do! And hear about the places we have visited last year, read some testimonials, and see what we can bring to your school to help bring the past alive!

University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

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Read about the city's archaeology in the new publication Visions of Ancient Leicester

Contact the School

School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH

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Publications

Books

Vrbes Extinctae. Archaeologies of Abandoned Classcial Towns (ed. N. Christie & A Augenti), Ashgate, Farnham (forthcoming, 2012).

Medieval Rural Settlement. Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600, edited N. Christie & P. Stamper. Oxbow Books/Windgather Press, Oxford, 2011.   see flier here

The Fall of the Western Roman Empire. An Archaeological and Historical Perspective. Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2010.

From Constantine to Charlemagne: An Archaeology of Italy, AD 300-850, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2006.NC Italy book

Landscapes of Change. Rural Evolutions in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, (ed. N Christie), Ashgate, Aldershot, 2004.

Ethnography and Archaeology in Upland Mediterranean Spain. Manolo's World: Peopling the Recent Past in the Serra de L'Altmirant, 1994-98, (edited with P Beavitt, J Gisbert Santonja, J Segui, V Gil Senis), Leicester Archaeology Monograph, 12, Leicester 2004.

Towns and Their Territories between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, (The Transformation of the Roman World, Volume 9), (eds. GP Brogiolo, N Gauthier and N Christie), ESF/Brill, Leiden, 2000.

Towns in Transition: From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, (eds. N Christie  and S Loseby), Scolar Press, Aldershot 1996.

The Lombards. The Ancient Langobards, Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1995.

Settlement and Economy in Italy, 1500 BC - AD 1500: Papers of the Fifth Conference of Italian Archaeology, (ed. N Christie), Oxbow Monograph 41, Oxford 1995.

Three South Etrurian Churches: Santa Cornelia, Santa Rufina and San Liberato, (ed. N Christie), Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome, Volume 4, London 1991.

 

Principal papers (1988-2009)

(with S Gibson) 'The city walls of Ravenna', Papers of the British School at Rome, lvi, 1988, 156-197.

(with A Rushworth) 'Urban fortification and defensive strategy in fifth and sixth century Italy: the case of Terracina', Journal of Roman Archaeology, i, 1988, 73-88.

'The archaeology of Byzantine Italy: a synthesis of recent research', Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 2:2, 1989, 249-293.

'The limes bizantino reviewed: the defence of Byzantine Liguria', Rivista di Studi Liguri, lv, 1989, 5-38.santa cornelia

'The Alps as a frontier, AD 168-774', Journal of Roman Archaeology, iv, 1991, 410-430.

'The survival of Roman settlement along the Middle Danube: Pannonia from the fourth to the tenth century AD', Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 11/3, 1992, 317-339.

'Barren fields? landscapes and settlements in late Roman and post-Roman Italy', in G Shipley and J Salmon (eds.), Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity, London, 254-283.

(with J Lloyd and G Lock), 'From the mountain to the plain: landscape evolution in the Abruzzo. An interim report on the Sangro Valley project, 1994-5', Papers of the British School at Rome, lxv, 1997, 1-57.

'Excavations and survey at the castle and villages of medieval Rascino (Cicolano, Central Italy)', in E Hubert (ed.), Une Région Frontalière au Moyen Age. Les Vallées du Turano ed du Salto entre Sabine et Abruzzes, Collection de l’École Française de Rome, 263), Rome, 2000, 225-242.

'Towns, land and power: German-Roman survivals and interactions in fifth- and sixth-century Pannonia', in GP Brogiolo, N Gauthier and N Christie (eds.), Towns and Their Territories between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, (The Transformation of the Roman World, Volume 9), ESF/Brill: Leiden, 2000, 275-297.

'The castra of Paul the Deacon and the Longobard frontier in Friuli', in Paolo Diacono e il Friuli Altomedievale (secc. VI-X). Atti del XIV Congresso Internazionale di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo (Cividale del Friuli - Bottenico di Moimacco, 24-29 Sett. 1999), Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo: Spoleto, 2001, 231-251.

'War and order: urban remodelling and defensive strategy in late Roman Italy', in L Lavan (ed.), Recent Research on Late Antique Urbanism, JRA Supplementary Series No.42, Ann Arbor, 2001, 106-122.late roman walls

'On Bells and Belltowers. Origins and evolutions in Italy and Britain, AD 700-1200', Church Archaeology, 5-6, 2004, 13-30.

'Charlemagne and the renewal of Rome', in J Story (ed.), Charlemagne: Empire and Society, Manchester University Press: Manchester & New York, 2005, 167-182.

(with P Beavitt, JG Santonja, VG Senis and J Segui) 'Peopling the recent past in the Serra de l’Altmirant: shepherds and farmers at the margins', International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 11:4, Dec. 2007, 304-321.

'From the Danube to the Po: Late Roman Defence in Pannonia and Italy', in A Poulter (ed.), The Transition to Late Antiquity, on the Danube and Beyond (Proceedings of the British Academy vol.141) Oxford University Press: Oxford & New York, 2008, 547-577.

'Of sheep and men: castles and transhumance in the upper Sangro valley and in the Cicolano, Italy', in G Lock and A Faustoferri (eds.), Archaeology and landscape in central Italy. Papers in memory of John A Lloyd (Oxford University School of Archaeology: Monograph 69), Oxford, 2008, 105-120.

'No more fun? The end of amphitheatres and games in the Late Roman West', in Wilmott T. (ed.),  Roman Amphitheatres and Spectacula: a 21st-century perspective. Papers from an international conference held at Chester, 16th-18th February, 2007, British Archaeological Reports International Series 1946, Archaeopress: Oxford, 2009, 221-232.