Roman Infrastructure in Early Medieval Britain

Fafinski Mateusz :

Mateusz Fafinski is a medievalist, digital humanist, and translator. His PhD thesis at Freie Universität Berlin focused on the uses of the material past in early medieval Britain. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford Text Technologies and teaches medieval history at Freie Universität Berlin.

"Focusing on Britain from the end of the fourth century to the middle of the eighth century, Mateusz Fafinski considers how the Roman past was reactivated. [...] A book-length study of this phenomenon is a useful addition to the existing literature. [...] From the perspective of northern history, the discussion and interpretation of the evidence for a number of sites will be of interest."
- Thomas Pickles, Northern History (2021)

"Mateusz Fafinski examines the transition from Roman to early medieval Britain through the lens of Roman infrastructure, both material and symbolic. In this stimulating study of the latefourth to mid-eighth centuries, Fafinski urges greater nuance than traditional arguments for either “continuity” or “discontinuity” of Roman spaces and practices."
- Jill Hamilton Clements, Speculum, vol 98, no 3, July 2023