This book brings together a collection of chapters reflecting the scholarship of Tom Beaumont James, Emeritus Professor at the University of Winchester, in advancing the study of medieval and early modern artefacts, buildings, gardens, and towns. The seventeen essays represent substantive contributions on specific topics and many of the authors started out as Tom's students. Some focus on buildings, others on people, some on documentary evidence and some on material culture. The chapters range chronologically from early medieval Southampton through sixteenth-century Winchester to an analysis of that city's nineteenth-century censuses. Although the work coheres around central Southern England there are also papers on Edward I's Tower of London, the medieval and early modern gardens of two Oxford colleges, and the English occupation of Normandy in the fifteenth century.

Table of Contents:
Tom James at the University of Winchester Tom James: An Appreciation Contributors Introduction Amanda Richardson and Mark Allen 1. Early Medieval Defences in Southern England David A. Hinton 2. Hamwic and the Origins of Wessex Revisited Barbara Yorke 3. A Different Perspective on the Thirteenth-Century King's Chapel Pavement at Clarendon Palace Mary South 4. King Edward I and the Water-Gate at the Tower of London Jeremy A. Ashbee 5. The Palaces and Residential Buildings of the Medieval Bishops of Winchester, c.1300-c.1500 John Hare 6. The Effect of the Black Death of 1348-49 on the Fair of St Giles, Winchester Paula Arthur 7. Catastrophe and Ceramics: A preliminary assessment of the impact of the Black Death of 1348-50 on pottery production in England Phil Marter 8. Balancing Military Ambitions with Civilian Interests: The English Occupation of Normandy, 1417 to 1450 Anne Curry 9. The Late-Medieval Inns of Hampshire: Their Architecture and Plan-Form Edward Roberts 10. The People Project: the residents of Southampton 1485-1603 Cheryl Butler 11. Gender, space and status in the sixteenth-century English Deer Park: with reference to the Framlingham Park Game Roll (1515-19) and George Penruddock's Ranger's Book (1572-75) Amanda Richardson 12. 'Disorders in Religion': The Misbehaving Laity of Elizabethan Winchester Susan K. Parkinson 13. Two College Gardens: Recent investigations in Wadham and Merton Colleges, Oxford John Steane 14. Brief Lives? Artefacts, memory and the afterlife of medieval monuments Christopher M. Gerrard 15. Clarendon House, Wiltshire: Its evolutionary details James Ayres 16. God's House Chapel, the French Church, and Remembering Southampton's 'Huguenot' Past Andrew Spicer 17. The Administration and Organisation of the Census in Nineteenth Century Winchester Mark Allen 18. A Bibliography of the Published Works of Professor Emeritus Tom Beaumont James