{"id":17,"date":"2018-07-08T19:31:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T19:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchframeworks.org\/emherf\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2021-05-19T13:12:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T13:12:10","slug":"chronological-framework","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/researchframeworks.org\/emherf\/chronological-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Periods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The chronological framework that is employed here follows broadly the period divisions of the 2006 Regional overview<\/a>[1]. Minor revisions to this scheme have been made to take account of more recent prehistoric research, notably the chronology of early hominin colonisation[2] and reassessment of the Bronze Age-Iron Age transition[3]. For simplicity, the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ period of the earlier study[4] has been subsumed into an ‘Early Medieval’ period embracing the imposition of the Danelaw from AD 793-1042 and the re-establishment of the Anglo-Saxon monarchy prior to the Norman Conquest of AD 1066. To permit closer correlation with commonly used and widely understood historical chronologies, we have linked the inception of the Post-Medieval period to the establishment by Henry VII of the Tudor dynasty after the defeat of Richard III at Bosworth Field in 1485 – one of several pivotal battles which have left enduring traces in the archaeological record of the East Midlands[5], and one which has attracted significant renewed interest following the recent discovery at Leicester of the remains of the last Plantagenet monarch.[6] Details of the nine periods that form the framework of this study are provided in the table below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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