Title Negotiating the North : meeting-places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea zone / by Sarah Semple, Alexandra Sanmark, Frode Iversen, and Natascha Mehler ; with Halldis Hobæk, Marie Ødegaard and Alexis Tudor Skinner

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 349 pages) : illustrations, maps Series The society for medieval archaeology monograph ; 41 Society for Medieval Archaeology monograph ; 41. Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Sarah Semple is Head of the Department of Archaeology, Durham University, UK. Alexandra Sanmark is Reader in Medieval Archaeology at the Institute for Northern Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands, UK. Frode Iversen is Professor in Archaeology at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway. Natascha Mehler is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Prehistory and Historical Archaeology, Vienna University, Austria Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 10, 2020) Subject Middle Ages. Public meetings -- Scandinavia -- History -- To 1500 Assembly, Right of -- Scandinavia Public meetings -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500 Assembly, Right of -- Great Britain Public meetings -- North Sea Region -- History -- To 1500 Assembly, Right of -- North Sea Region HISTORY / Medieval HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain Assembly, Right of Middle Ages Politics and government Public meetings SUBJECT Scandinavia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85117952 Great Britain -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056868 North Sea Region -- Politics and government Subject Europe -- North Sea Region Great Britain Scandinavia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Sanmark, Alexandra, author. Iversen, Frode, author. Mehler, Natascha, author. LC no. 2020011401 ISBN 9781003045663 1003045669 1000096688 9781000096668 1000096661 9781000096675 100009667X 9781000096682

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