Negotiating the North : meeting-places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea zone

Negotiating the North meeting-places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea zone

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,...

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Otros Autores: Semple, Sarah, 1973- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2020.
2021.
Colección:Society for Medieval Archaeology monograph ; 41.
Materias:
Assembly, Right of > North Sea Region.
Public meetings > Scandinavia > History > To 1500.
Public meetings > Great Britain > History > To 1500.
Public meetings > North Sea Region > History > To 1500.
Assembly, Right of > Great Britain.
Assembly, Right of > Scandinavia.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009434477206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Series Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Title Page
  • CONTENTS
  • List of figures
  • Preface
  • Summary
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Summary
  • 1.2 Introduction
  • 1.3 The thing
  • 1.4 The value of studying early medieval assembly
  • 1.5 The scope of this volume
  • 2 Research histories
  • 2.1 Summary
  • 2.2 Genesis: Assemblies and national consciousness
  • 2.3 Romanticism, nationalism and the thing
  • 2.4 Research traditions 1900 to present day
  • 2.5 Conclusion
  • 3 Methods and approaches
  • 3.1 Summary
  • 3.2 Written sources
  • 3.3 Mapping the thing
  • 3.4 Limitations
  • 4 Lawthings and inauguration sites in Scandinavia
  • 4.1 Summary
  • 4.2 Reconstructing the thing system in Scandinavia
  • 4.3 The laws, law provinces and things
  • 4.4 The provincial thing sites in Scandinavia
  • 4.5 Royal inauguration sites in Scandinavia
  • 4.6 Discussion
  • 5 Landscapes of law in Norway
  • 5.1 Summary
  • 5.2 Introduction
  • 5.3 The Norwegian kingdom: The historic thing system
  • 5.4 The Borgarthing law province
  • 5.5 Hålogaland law province
  • 5.6 The Gulathing law province
  • 5.7 Conclusions
  • 6 Colonisation and control: Assembly systems in new territories
  • 6.1 Summary
  • 6.2 Law and assembly in the Norse settlements
  • 6.3 Iceland
  • 6.4 Faroe Islands
  • 6.5 Orkney and Shetland
  • 6.6 The Danelaw
  • 6.7 Discussion
  • 7 Assembly and trade in Iceland and beyond
  • 7.1 Summary
  • 7.2 Regulation and assembly in the Commonwealth Period
  • 7.3 Regulation of trade in Iceland in the later Middle Ages
  • 7.4 Trade and markets at the Icelandic local spring assemblies
  • 7.5 Trade at the Icelandic general assembly of Þingvellir
  • 7.6 The Icelandic model in context
  • 7.7 Discussion
  • 8 Things in the north
  • 8.1 Summary
  • 8.2 The shadow of the past
  • 8.3 Basic structures and beginnings?
  • 8.4 Things in operation.
  • 8.5 Things in the landscape
  • 8.6 Contemporary thing structures and features
  • 8.7 Things in context
  • 8.8 Kings, things and the church
  • 8.9 Summary
  • 9 Concluding thoughts
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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