Dorestad and its networks : communities, contact and conflict in early medieval Europe : proceedings of the third 'Dorestad Congress' held at the National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, The Netherlands, 12-15 June, 2019 / edited by Annemarieke Willemsen & Hanneke Kik.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Willemsen, A. (Annemarieke), editor.

Kik, Hanneke, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Conference Name:

Dorestad Congress (3rd : 2019 : Leiden, Netherlands), author.

Series:

Papers on archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities ; 25.

PALMA: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities ; volume 25

Language:

Dutch

Subjects (All):

Vikings--Netherlands--Wijk bij Duurstede--Congresses.

Vikings.

Viking antiquities--Netherlands--Wijk bij Duurstede--Congresses.

Viking antiquities.

Civilization, Viking--Netherlands--Wijk bij Duurstede--Congresses.

Civilization, Viking.

History.

Netherlands--History--To 1384--Congresses.

Netherlands.

Dorestad (Extinct city)--Congresses.

Dorestad (Extinct city).

Wijk bij Duurstede (Netherlands)--Antiquities--Congresses.

Wijk bij Duurstede (Netherlands).

Netherlands--Wijk bij Duurstede.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone press, [2021]

Summary:

Dorestad was the largest town of the Low Countries in the Carolingian era. As a riverine emporium on the northern edge of the Frankish Empire, it functioned as a European junction, connecting the Viking world with the Continent. In 2019, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden hosted its quinquennial international congress based around Dorestad, located at present-day Wijk bij Duurstede. This third edition, 'Dorestad and its Networks', coincided with the fiftieth birthday of finding the famous Dorestad brooch in July 1969, and with what would have been the hundredth birthday of prof.dr. Ina Isings, to whom a special session on early-medieval glass was dedicated. The Third Dorestad Congress brought together scholars from the North Sea area to debate Dorestad and its counterparts in Scandinavia, the British Isles and the Rhineland, as well as the material culture, urbanisation and infrastructure of the Early Middle Ages. The contributions in these proceedings are devoted to new research into the Vikings at Dorestad, assemblages of jewellery, playing pieces and weaponry from the town, recent excavations at other Carolingian sites in the Low Countries, and the use and trade of glassware and broadswords in this era. They show the political, economic and cultural networks of Dorestad, the only town to be called 'vicus famosus' in contemporary sources.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Dorestad and its networks. An introduction / Annemarieke Willemsen

VIKINGS AND LUXURY AT DORESTAD

Viking Dorestad. A haven for hydrarchy? / Christian Cooijmans

Vikings beyond Dorestad. Rethinking some metal finds in, around and after the emporium / Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm

Trading games? Playing with/without the Vikings in Dorestad / Mark A. Hall

A new gold ring from Dorestad? / Annemarieke Willemsen

Beads from Dorestad / Mette B. Langbroek

Mixed Emotions. The swords of Dorestad / Annemarieke Willemsen

THE EARLY MEDIEVAL NETHERLANDS

A Carolingian coin hoard from Wirdum (Friesland, the Netherlands) and the Dorestad mint / Christina Peek

Timber! Opening up the landscape of Carolingian Leiderdorp / Menno Dijkstra

Charlemagne's palace at Nijmegen. Some thoughts on the economic implications of itinerant kingship / Arjan den Braven

Beyond the planned/unplanned dichotomy. The development of the town plan of Utrecht until c. 1560 / Marcel IJsselstijn

COMMERCE AND CONFLICT

Production of early medieval Glass in Cologne and its export via Dorestad / Klaus Simon

Glass vessels from the early medieval emporium at Ipswich / Rose Broadley

Non-funerary sword depositions in Carolingian Europe / Dusan Maczek.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789464260038

9464260033

9789464260045

9464260041

OCLC:

1250511149

Publisher Number:

99988375877