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Negotiating the North - Meeting-Places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea Zone (Paperback)
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Negotiating the North - Meeting-Places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea Zone (Paperback)
Series: The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs
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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. In a series of richly
illustrated chapters, we explore the emergence and development of
mechanisms for consensus. We begin with a historiographical
exploration of assembly research that sets the intellectual agenda
for the chapters that follow. We then examine the emergence and
development of the thing in Scandinavia and its export to the lands
colonised by the Norse. We consider more broadly how assembly
practices may have developed at a local level, yet played a
significant role in the consolidation, and at times regulation, of
elite power structures. Presenting a fresh perspective on the
agency and power of the thing and cognate types of local and
regional assembly, this interdisciplinary volume provides an
invaluable, in-depth insight into the people, places, laws, and
consensual structures that shaped the early medieval and medieval
kingdoms of northern Europe.
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