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Negotiating the North

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

By: Sarah Semple,Alexandra Sanmark,Frode Iversen,Natascha Mehler

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Negotiating the North

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

By: Sarah Semple,Alexandra Sanmark,Frode Iversen,Natascha Mehler

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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Negotiating the North

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

By: Sarah Semple,Alexandra Sanmark,Frode Iversen,Natascha Mehler

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

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Excavations and Surveys at the Law Ting Holm, Tingwall, Shetland

An Iron Age Settlement and Medieval Assembly Site

By: Joris Coolen,Natascha Mehler

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Excavations and Surveys at the Law Ting Holm, Tingwall, Shetland

An Iron Age Settlement and Medieval Assembly Site

By: Joris Coolen,Natascha Mehler

In May 2011, a team of archaeologists from the Department of Prehistory and Historical Archaeology of the University of Vienna, assisted by colleagues from the Czech Republic and Norway, carried out a research excavation at the Law Ting Holm in Tingwall on Shetland's Mainland. The site is believed to be the place of the main assembly of Shetland, which was in use most likely from the Norse period to the second half of the 16th century.

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140731226X

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Negotiating the North

Negotiating the North

Negotiating the North

Negotiating the North

Excavations and Surveys at the Law Ting Holm, Tingwall, Shetland

Excavations and Surveys at the Law Ting Holm, Tingwall, Shetland

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