Power and Place in Europe in the Early Middle Ages

by Carroll, Jayne; Reynolds, Andrew; Yorke, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780197266588
• ISBN10: 0197266584
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-02-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Jayne Carroll, Associate Professor in the History of English, University of Nottingham,Andrew Reynolds, Professor of Medieval Archaeology, University College London,Barbara Yorke, Professor Emeritus, University of Winchester

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. 1. Power and Place in Europe in the Early Middle Ages, Jayne Carroll, Andrew Reynolds and Barbara Yorke
2. Meeting in the Shadow of Heroes? Personal Names and Assembly Places, John Baker
3. 'Folk' Cemeteries, Assembly and Territorial Geography in Early Anglo-Saxon England, Stuart Brookes
4. Locating Meaning in Later Anglo-Saxon England: Meeting-Places of the witan, 924-1016, Levi Roach
5. Cooking-Pit Sites as Possible Assembly Places: Lunde in Vestfold, South-East Norway-A Regional Assembly Site in the Early Iron Age?, Marie Odegaard
6. Viking Age and Medieval Assemblies in Western Norway: Approaches to Identification of Sites, Halldis Hobaek
7. Accommodating Assemblies, as Evidenced at the 6th-11th-Century ad Royal Residence at Lake Tisso, Denmark, Lars Jorgensen, Lone Gebauer Thomsen and Anne Norgaard Jorgensen
8. Houses of Representatives? Courtyard Sites North of the Polar Circle: Reflections on Communal Organisation from the Late Roman Period to the Viking Age, Frode Iversen
9. Churches as Assembly Places in Early Medieval Italy, Alexandra Chavarria Arnau
10. Community Meetings in Early Medieval Castile, Julio Escalona
11. The Language of Justice in Northern Iberia before ad 1000, Wendy Davies
12. Luxeuil in the Merovingian Kingdom, Ian Wood
13. Structures of Power: From Imperial Villa to Monastic Estate at Villamagna, Italy, Elizabeth Fentress and Caroline Goodson
14. Ulpianum-Nyeuberge-Pri?thine: Places of Power on the Plain of Kosovo, Felix Teichner
15. Power, Place and Territory in Early Medieval South-East Wales, Andrew Seaman
16. Making Provincial Kingship in Early Ireland: Cashel and the Creation of Munster, Patrick Gleeson
17. Living Near the Sea: The Organisation of Frisia in Early Medieval Times, Egge Knol
18. Archaeology and Geographies of Jurisdiction: Evidence from South-East Suffolk in the 7th Century, Christopher Scull
19. Mints, Moneyers and the Geography of Power in Early Medieval England and its Neighbours, Rory Naismith
20. Spatial Configurations of Power in Anglo-Saxon England: Sidelights on the Relationships between Boroughs, Royal Vills and Hundreds, Andrew Reynolds
21. Property and Governance: Making the Anglo-Saxon Agricultural Landscape, Susan Oosthuizen
Index