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This volume brings together a series of case studies of spatial configurations of power among the early medieval societies of Europe. The geographical range extends from Ireland to Kosovo and from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean world and brings together quite different scholarly traditions in a focussed enquiry into the character of places of power from the end of the Roman period into the central middle ages. The book's strength lies in the basis that it provides for a comparative analysis of the formation, function and range of power relations in early medieval societies. The editors' introductory chapter provides an extended scene setting review of the current state of knowledge in the field of early medieval social complexity and sets out an agenda for future work in this topical area. The regional and local case studies found in the volume, most of them interdisciplinary, showcase detailed studies of particular situations at a range of scales. While much previous work tends to focus on comparisons with the classical world, this volume emphasises the uniqueness of early medieval modes of social organisation and the need to assess these societies on their own terms.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
1: Jayne Carroll, Andrew Reynolds and Barbara Yorke: Power and Place in Europe in the Early Middle Ages
2: John Baker: Meeting in the Shadow of Heroes? Personal Names and Assembly Places
3: Stuart Brookes: 'Folk' Cemeteries, Assembly and Territorial Geography in Early Anglo-Saxon England
4: Levi Roach: Locating Meaning in Later Anglo-Saxon England: Meeting-Places of the witan, 924-1016
5: Marie Ødegaard: Cooking-Pit Sites as Possible Assembly Places: Lunde in Vestfold, South-East Norway-A Regional Assembly Site in the Early Iron Age?
6: Halldis Hobaek: Viking Age and Medieval Assemblies in Western Norway: Approaches to Identification of Sites
7: Lars Jørgensen, Lone Gebauer Thomsen and Anne Nørgaard Jørgensen: Accommodating Assemblies, as Evidenced at the 6th-11th-Century ad Royal Residence at Lake Tissø, Denmark
8: Frode Iversen: Houses of Representatives? Courtyard Sites North of the Polar Circle: Reflections on Communal Organisation from the Late Roman Period to the Viking Age
9: Alexandra Chavarría Arnau: Churches as Assembly Places in Early Medieval Italy
10: Julio Escalona: Community Meetings in Early Medieval Castile
11: Wendy Davies: The Language of Justice in Northern Iberia before ad 1000
12: Ian Wood: Luxeuil in the Merovingian Kingdom
13: Elizabeth Fentress and Caroline Goodson: Structures of Power: From Imperial Villa to Monastic Estate at Villamagna, Italy
14: Felix Teichner: Ulpianum-Nyeuberge-Pri,sthine: Places of Power on the Plain of Kosovo
15: Andrew Seaman: Power, Place and Territory in Early Medieval South-East Wales
16: Patrick Gleeson: Making Provincial Kingship in Early Ireland: Cashel and the Creation of Munster
17: Egge Knol: Living Near the Sea: The Organisation of Frisia in Early Medieval Times
18: Christopher Scull: Archaeology and Geographies of Jurisdiction: Evidence from South-East Suffolk in the 7th Century
19: Rory Naismith: Mints, Moneyers and the Geography of Power in Early Medieval England and its Neighbours
20: Andrew Reynolds: Spatial Configurations of Power in Anglo-Saxon England: Sidelights on the Relationships between Boroughs, Royal Vills and Hundreds
21: Susan Oosthuizen: Property and Governance: Making the Anglo-Saxon Agricultural Landscape
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