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

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Halldis Hobæk, Frode Iversen, Natascha Mehler, Mehler Natascha, Marie Ødegaard, Alexandra Sanmark, Sarah Semple, Sarah Sanmark Semple, Semple Sarah, Alexis Tudor Skinner
• Assisted by: Society for Medieval Archaeology (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367493110
• ISBN: 978-0-367-49311-0
• No. of pages: 370
• Series: The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Archaeology by period / region, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, c 1154 to c 1485 (Plantagenet and Angevin period), Medieval European archaeology