Power and Place in Europe in the Early Middle Ages

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Jayne Carroll (Associate Professor in the History of English, Associate Professor in the History of English, University of Nottingham) Andrew Reynolds (Professor of Medieval Archaeology, Professor of Medieval Archaeology, University College London)

Power and Place in Europe in the Early Middle Ages

Jayne Carroll (Associate Professor in the History of English, Associate Professor in the History of English, University of Nottingham), Andrew Reynolds (Professor of Medieval Archaeology, Professor of Medieval Archaeology, University College London), Barbara Yorke (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, University of Winchester)

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Oxford University Press
14 November 2019

Medieval history; Archaeology; Medieval European archaeology

Series: Proceedings of the British Academy

This volume brings together a series of case studies of spatial configurations of power among the early medieval societies of Europe. The geographical range extends from Ireland to Kosovo and from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean world and brings together quite different scholarly traditions in a focussed enquiry into the character of places of power from the end of the Roman period into the central middle ages. The book's strength lies in the basis that it provides for a comparative analysis of the formation, function and range of power relations in early medieval societies. The editors' introductory chapter provides an extended scene setting review of the current state of knowledge in the field of early medieval social complexity and sets out an agenda for future work in this topical area. The regional and local case studies found in the volume, most of them interdisciplinary, showcase detailed studies of particular situations at a range of scales. While much previous work tends to focus on comparisons with the classical world, this volume emphasises the uniqueness of early medieval modes of social organisation and the need to assess these societies on their own terms.

Edited by: Jayne Carroll (Associate Professor in the History of English Associate Professor in the History of English University of Nottingham), Andrew Reynolds (Professor of Medieval Archaeology, Professor of Medieval Archaeology, University College London), Barbara Yorke (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, University of Winchester)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 224
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780197266588
ISBN 10: 0197266584
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 14 November 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Power and Place in Europe in the Early Middle Ages

this volume is an important step towards a more complex and nuanced understanding of the political articulation of early medieval Europe and, without doubt, will open and promote new lines of work and discussion. * Jose Carlos Sanchez Pardo, University of Santiago de Compostela, The Medieval Review *