Research seminar – Tradition and transformation: explaining cultural change through the case study of the Anglo Saxon landscape.

The next seminar in the UCSheritage series will be held on Wednesday 23rd October at 4.30pm, in the Waterfront Building Boardroom.

If you’d like to attend, please register by emailing  Julie Barber julie.barber@ucs.ac.uk

Dr Susan Oosthuizen, Senior Lecturer in Historic Environment at the University of Cambridge will be talking about: 

Tradition and transformation: explaining cultural change through the case study of the Anglo Saxon landscape.

Contrary to long-held belief, recent research indicates that many elements in the medieval landscape of open fields and common pastures originated centuries, perhaps millennia, before ‘the Anglo-Saxons’ arrived in Britain. This paper explores the interplay between such long-held tradition and early medieval innovations in the landscape to suggest a wider model for cultural change.