Overview

Dorestad was the largest town of the Low Countries in the Carolingian era. As an inland port on the edge of the Frankish Empire, it functioned as an international hub, connecting the North Sea World with the Continent and the Low Countries with Italy. In 2024, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden hosted its quinquennial international congress based around Dorestad, located at present-day Wijk bij Duurstede. This fourth edition, ‘Dorestad and Everything After’, coincided with the large exhibition ‘The Year 1000’ that showcased the Netherlands in the tenth and eleventh century in its European framework. The Fourth Dorestad Congress brought together scholars from various disciplines to debate Dorestad and its relations in northern and southern Europe in the period of 800 to 1100 AD. The contributions in these proceedings are devoted to new research into high medieval towns, from Quentovic to Rome, the landscape in which they flourished and the travellers that traversed those. Special attention is paid to the monetization of the period and even Halley’s comet, visible in 1066, makes an appearance. Together, they show the afterlives of Dorestad and its counterparts, putting these emporia into new geographical and temporal perspectives.

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Author:   Annemarieke Willemsen ,  Hanneke Kik
Publisher:   Sidestone Press
Imprint:   Sidestone Press
ISBN:  

9789464263862

ISBN 10:   9464263865
Pages:   150
Publication Date:   31 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Dorestad and everything after: an introduction Annemarieke Willemsen Quentovic and after: Early medieval occupation on the banks of the Canche Inès Leroy Placing the early medieval kingdom of Lindsey in the North Sea Alex Harvey In short: An early medieval royal estate in Haamstede (Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland) Ernst Dekkers From Classe to Cervia: Urban stories from the Upper Adriatic Andrea Augenti Pilgrimage to Rome around the year 1000 Pleun van Lieshout The Year 1000 in Rome: Results of an academic workshop at the Royal Netherlandish Institute (KNIR) in Rome, 7-8 October 2021 Pleun van Lieshout, Raphaël Rijntjes & Annemarieke Willemsen Exotic objects in church treasuries in Rome and surroundings Olivia Romijn After Dorestad: silver and gold in Carolingian Frisia, 850-950 Simon Coupland The monetization of the Low Countries around 1000 AD and its potential for historians Jos Benders In short: Needles and what they tell us about Dorestad Cynthia Kromotaroeno The significance of Halley’s Comet in the Bayeux Tapestry Michael Lewis & Simon Portegies Zwart Life after Dorestad: Late medieval memories of an erstwhile emporium Christian Cooijmans

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Annemarieke Willemsen is curator of the Medieval collections at the National Museum of Antiquities (Leiden) and director of the Dorestad Congress. In Leiden, she organized the 2009 exhibition & congress on Carolingian Dorestad, the 2014 exhibition & congress on the early-medieval Netherlands and the 2023-2024 exhibition and congress on The Year 1000. Next to books about Dorestad and the Vikings in the Netherlands, she published extensively on Roman and medieval children, toys, education, fashion & accessories. Hanneke Kik studied Ancient History and Classical Archaeology and works as project manager exhibitions at the National Museum of Antiquities since 2011.

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