Negotiating the North : meeting-places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea zone /
Semple, Sarah, 1973-
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. - 1 online resource (xx, 349 pages) : illustrations, maps. - The society for medieval archaeology monograph ; 41 .
"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"--
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Middle Ages.
Public meetings--History--Scandinavia--To 1500.
Assembly, Right of--Scandinavia.
Public meetings--History--Great Britain--To 1500.
Assembly, Right of--Great Britain.
Public meetings--History--North Sea Region--To 1500.
Assembly, Right of--North Sea Region.
HISTORY / Medieval
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
Scandinavia--Politics and government.
Great Britain--Politics and government.
North Sea Region--Politics and government.
D131 / .S46 2021
948/.02
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. - 1 online resource (xx, 349 pages) : illustrations, maps. - The society for medieval archaeology monograph ; 41 .
"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"--
9781003045663 1003045669 9781000096682 1000096688 9781000096668 1000096661 9781000096675 100009667X
Middle Ages.
Public meetings--History--Scandinavia--To 1500.
Assembly, Right of--Scandinavia.
Public meetings--History--Great Britain--To 1500.
Assembly, Right of--Great Britain.
Public meetings--History--North Sea Region--To 1500.
Assembly, Right of--North Sea Region.
HISTORY / Medieval
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
Scandinavia--Politics and government.
Great Britain--Politics and government.
North Sea Region--Politics and government.
D131 / .S46 2021
948/.02