London, 1100-1600 - The Archaeology of a Capital City - John Schofield
Medieval and Tudor London after 1600
London, 1100-1600 - The Archaeology of a Capital City - John Schofield
John Schofield [+]
Museum of London (retired)
John Schofield is now retired from the Museum of London, and is an archaeologist writing various books and reports. He is archaeologist for St Paul's Cathedral, London, and has produced a large report 'St Paul's Cathedral before Wren', published by English Heritage in 2011. Also in 2011 he published 'London 1100-1600' for Equinox Press, in the series Archaeology of Medieval Europe, of which he is series editor. This book was awarded the London Archaeological Prize for the best archaeological publication in London in the years 2011-12, on 16 November 2012.
Description
The chapter therefore outlines some of the attitudes displayed to medieval and Tudor London, its buildings and artefacts, by rulers, administrators, developers and residents in the four centuries since 1600; and from comparatively recently, the growing efforts of those concerned with recording the past as it was gradually but inevitably eroded. The two matters are inversely related: archaeologists of all kinds have become more numerous and stronger, but the archaeological resource has diminished.