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Viking Law and Order

An Investigation of Norse Thing Sites

By: Sanmark Alexandra Sanmark

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Viking Law and Order

An Investigation of Norse Thing Sites

By: Sanmark Alexandra Sanmark

Until very recently Viking and Norse assembly sites were essentially unknown, apart from a few select sites, such as Thingvellir in Iceland. The Vikings are well-known for their violence and pillage, but they also had a well-organised system for political decision-making, legal cases and conflict resolution. Using archaeological evidence, written sources and place-names, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of their legal system and assembly sites, showing that this formed an integral part of Norse culture and identity, to the extent that the assembly institution was brought to all Norse settlements.Sites are analysed through surveys and case studies across Scandinavia, Scotland and the North Atlantic region. The author moves the view of assembly sites away from a functional one to an understanding of the symbolic meaning of these highly ritualised sites, and shows how they were constructed to signify power through monuments and natural features. This original and stimulating study is set not only in the context of the Viking and Norse periods, but also in the wider continental histories of place, assembly and the rhetoric of power.

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An Investigation of Norse Thing Sites

By: Sanmark Alexandra Sanmark

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An Investigation of Norse Thing Sites

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

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

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Viking Law and Order

Viking Law and Order

Viking Law and Order

Viking Law and Order

Negotiating the North

Negotiating the North

Negotiating the North

Negotiating the North

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