Power & place in Europe in the early Middle Ages / edited by Jayne Carroll, Andrew Reynolds and Barbara Yorke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reynolds, Andrew (Andrew J.), author, editor.

Contributor:

Carroll, Jayne, editor.

Yorke, Barbara, 1951- editor.

British Academy, issuing body.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 0068-1202 224.

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 224

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Power (Social sciences)--Europe--History--To 1500.

Power (Social sciences).

Names, Geographical.

History.

Public spaces--Political aspects.

Public spaces.

Europe--Civilization--Roman influences.

Europe.

Civilization.

Europe--Politics and government--476-1492.

Politics and government.

Spheres of influence.

Public spaces--Political aspects--Europe--History.

Names, Geographical--Political aspects--Europe--History.

Europe--History--476-1492.

Civilization--Roman influences.

Middle Ages.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 506 pages : illustrations, maps (1 color), plans ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Power and place in Europe in the early Middle Ages

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

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 focused 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 emphasizes the uniqueness of early medieval modes of social organization and the need to assess these societies on their own terms.

Contents:

1. Power and place in Europe in the early Middle Ages / Jayne Carroll, Andrew Reynolds and Barbara Yorke

Part I: Assemblies, meeting places and negotiation. 2. Meeting in the shadow of heroes? : personal names and assembly places / John Baker

3. 'Folk' cemeteries, assembly and territorial geography in early Anglo-Saxon England / Stuart Brookes

4. Locating meaning in later Anglo-Saxon England : meeting-places of the witan, 924-1016 / Levi Roach

5. Cooking-pit sites as assembly sites : Lunde in Vestfold, South-East Norway

a regional assembly site in the early Iron Age? / Marie Ødegaard

6. Viking age and Medieval assemblies in western Norway : approaches to the identification of sites / Halldis Hobæk

7. Accommodating assemblies, as evidenced at the 6th-11th-century AD royal residence at Lake Tissø, Denmark / Lars Jørgensen, Lone Gebauer Thomsen and Anne Nørgård Jørgensen

8. Houses of representatives? Courtyard sites north of the Polar Circle : reflections on communal organisation from the late Roman period to the Viking age / Frode Iversen

9. Churches as assembly places in early Medieval Italy / Alexandra Chavarría Arnau

10. Community meetings in early Medieval Castile / Julio Escalona

Part II: Landscapes of power. 11. The language of justice in northern Iberia before AD 1000 / Wendy Davies

12. Luxeuil in the Merovingian kingdom / Ian Wood

13. Structures of power : from imperial villa to monastic estate at Villamagna, Italy / Elizabeth Fentress and Caroline Goodson

14. Ulpianum-Nyeuberge-Prişthine : places of power on the plain of Kosovo / Felix Teichner

15. Power, place and territory in early Medieval South-East Wales / Andy Seaman

16. Making provincial kingship in early Ireland : Cashel and the creation of Munster / Patrick Gleeson

17. Living near the sea : the organisation of Frisia in early Medieval times / Egge Knol

18. Archaeology and geographies of jurisdiction : evidence from South-East Suffolk in the 7th century / Christopher Scull

19. Mints, moneyers and the geography of power in early Medieval England and its neighbors / Rory Naismith

20. Spatial configurations of power in Anglo-Saxon England : sidelights on the relationships between boroughs, royal vills and hundreds / Andrew Reynolds

21. Property and governance : making the Anglo-Saxon agricultural landscape / Susan Oosthuizen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains most of the papers which were presented at the conference Power and Place in Later Roman and Early Medieval Europe, which was held at University College, London, November 10-12, 2011. Some of the papers have been revised and augmented for publication, and additional papers have been included--Cited from page xxi.

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ISBN:

9780197266588

0197266584

OCLC:

1104067774