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For the first time, this volume brings together an international group of experts on the topic of early modern military encampments in Northwestern Europe. Despite the flourishing of conflict archaeology across the continent, the discipline lacks a consistent terminology and adequate typology for describing and interpreting the large variety of structures in encampments and the finds they contain. On a methodological level, it remains difficult to detect these large-scale but low-impact military features in the small windows offered by trial trenching. Many of these sites go unrecognized, as a result of their ephemeral nature and lack of comparative framework and are therefore subsequently destroyed. The authors in this book take on this challenge, giving an overview of the documents, features and finds that are linked to military encampments and the methodologies that can be applied for their identification and interpretation. Pour la premiere fois, ce volume rassemble un groupe international d'experts autour du sujet des campements militaires aux temps modernes dans l'Europe du Nord-Ouest. Bien que l'archeologie des conflits soit en plein essor sur le continent, il manque a la discipline une terminologie consistante et une typologie adequate pour decrire et interpreter la grande diversite de structures dans les campements et la culture materielle qu'ils contiennent. D'un point de vue methodologique, il reste difficile de detecter ces phenomenes de grande ampleur mais a faible impact par le biais de petites fenetres offertes par des diagnostiques archeologiques. A cause de leur nature ephemere et par manque d'un cadre comparatif, de nombreux sites ne sont pas reconnus et sont par consequent detruits. Les auteurs dans ce livre relevent ce defi en presentant un apercu des documents, des structures et de la culture materielle associes a des campements militaires, ainsi que des methodologies qui peuvent servir pour leur identification et leur interpretation.
