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Author:   Jayne Carroll (Associate Professor in the History of English, Associate Professor in the History of English, University of Nottingham) ,  Andrew Reynolds (Professor of Medieval Archaeology, Professor of Medieval Archaeology, University College London) ,  Barbara Yorke (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, University of Winchester)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   224
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.982kg
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9780197266588

ISBN 10:   0197266584
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   17 December 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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 Index

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this volume is an important step towards a more complex and nuanced understanding of the political articulation of early medieval Europe and, without doubt, will open and promote new lines of work and discussion. * Jose Carlos Sanchez Pardo, University of Santiago de Compostela, The Medieval Review *

Author Information

Jayne Carroll is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Name-Studies at the University of Nottingham, and Honorary Secretary of the English Place-Name Society. She has published on Old English and Old Norse language and literature, although her current research focuses upon place-names in England. She was Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project, The Place-Names of Shropshire, and has been Co-Investigator on a number of Leverhulme Trust-funded interdisciplinary projects, including Travel and Communication in Anglo-Saxon England, and Flood and Flow: Place-Names and the Changing Hydrology of English and Welsh Rivers. Andrew Reynolds is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. His research focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to social complexity and social organisation in early medieval Europe, particularly Anglo-Saxon England. Barbara Yorke is Professor Emeritus of Early Medieval History at the University of Winchester and a Honorary Professor in the Department of Archaeology, UCL. Although primarily an early medieval historian she has always been interested in the interdisciplinary dimensions of the period. She is the author of Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England (1990), Wessex in the Early Middle Ages (1995) and The Conversion of Britain (2006) and is currently contributing historical chapters to various archaeology-based projects, including the Staffordshire hoard, the Prittlewell princely burial and Lordship and Landscape in East Anglia.

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