Negotiating the North

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

Sarah Semple, Alexandra Sanmark, Frode Iversen , Natascha Mehler

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Routledge
29 April 2022

Medieval European archaeology

Series: The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs

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.

By: Sarah Semple, Alexandra Sanmark, Frode Iversen, Natascha Mehler, Natascha Mehler
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 980g
ISBN: 9780367513863
ISBN 10: 0367513862
Series: The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 29 April 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Negotiating the North: Meeting-Places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea Zone

""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 Right – Medieval Archaeology