Power and Place in Europe in the Early Middle Ages

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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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
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