Negotiating the North: Meeting-Places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea Zone
Sarah Semple, "Negotiating the North: Meeting-Places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea Zone "
English | ISBN: 0367513862 | 2022 | 370 pages | PDF | 34 MB
English | ISBN: 0367513862 | 2022 | 370 pages | PDF | 34 MB
This book brings together the cumulative results of a three-year project focused on the assemblies and administrative systems of Scandinavia, Britain, and the North Atlantic islands in the 1st and 2nd millennia AD. In this volume we integrate a wide range of historical, cartographic, archaeological, field-based, and onomastic data pertaining to early medieval and medieval administrative practices, geographies, and places of assembly in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Scotland, and eastern England. This transnational perspective has enabled a new understanding of the development of power structures in early medieval northern Europe and the maturation of these systems in later centuries under royal control.