Power and Politics in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland

by Driscoll, Stephen T.; Nieke, Margaret R.

• ISBN13: 9780852245200
• ISBN10: 0852245203
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1988-08-01
• Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction Reworking Historical Archaeology	p. 1
Dalriada the Establishment and Maintenance of an Early Historic Kingdom in Northern Britain	p. 6
Acknowledgements	p. 21
The Activities of Potentates in Celtic Britain, Ad 500-800: A Positivist Approach	p. 22
Notes	p. 37
Appendix: Enclosed Places, Ad 500-800	p. 40
The Archaeology of Early Historic Irish Kingship	p. 47
Notes	p. 68
the Archaeological Evidence	p. 69
Power and Exchange in Middle Saxon England	p. 79
Early Scottish Towns: Their Origins and Economy	p. 96
Acknowledgements	p. 110
Territories and Leadership: Frameworks for the Study of Emergent Polities in Early Anglo-Saxon Southern England	p. 111
Style and Sociopolitical Organisation: A Preliminary Study from Early Anglo-Saxon England	p. 128
Style and Symbol: Explaining Variability in Anglo-Saxon Cremation Burials	p. 145
Notes	p. 161
The Relationship Between History and Archaeology: Artefacts, Documents and Power	p. 162
Works Referred to in the Text	p. 188
List of Contributors	p. 208
Index	p. 209
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