1st Edition

Negotiating the North Meeting-Places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea Zone

370 Pages 65 Color & 116 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

370 Pages 65 Color & 116 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction 2. Research Histories 3. Methods and Approaches 4. Lawthings and Inauguration Sites in Scandinavia 5. Landscapes of Law in Norway 6. Colonisation and Control: Assembly Systems to New Territories 7. Assembly and Trade in Iceland and Beyond 8. Things in the North 9.Concluding Thoughts

Biography

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.

"Negotiating the North is a truly impressive work, showing the importance of assembly places and practice for our comprehension of the changing communities of early medieval northern Europe via expert interrogation of the varied data." Duncan W RightMedieval Archaeology