Power and Place in Europe in the Early Middle Ages

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.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesNotes on ContributorsPreface and Acknowledgements1: Jayne Carroll, Andrew Reynolds and Barbara Yorke: Power and Place in Europe in the Early Middle Ages2: John Baker: Meeting in the Shadow of Heroes? Personal Names and Assembly Places3: Stuart Brookes: 'Folk' Cemeteries, Assembly and Territorial Geography in Early Anglo-Saxon England4: Levi Roach: Locating Meaning in Later Anglo-Saxon England: Meeting-Places of the witan, 924-10165: Marie Ødegaard: Cooking-Pit Sites as Possible Assembly Places: Lunde in Vestfold, South-East Norway-A Regional Assembly Site in the Early Iron Age?6: Halldis Hobaek: Viking Age and Medieval Assemblies in Western Norway: Approaches to Identification of Sites7: Lars Jørgensen, Lone Gebauer Thomsen and Anne Nørgaard Jørgensen: Accommodating Assemblies, as Evidenced at the 6th-11th-Century ad Royal Residence at Lake Tissø, Denmark8: Frode Iversen: Houses of Representatives? Courtyard Sites North of the Polar Circle: Reflections on Communal Organisation from the Late Roman Period to the Viking Age9: Alexandra Chavarría Arnau: Churches as Assembly Places in Early Medieval Italy10: Julio Escalona: Community Meetings in Early Medieval Castile11: Wendy Davies: The Language of Justice in Northern Iberia before ad 100012: Ian Wood: Luxeuil in the Merovingian Kingdom13: Elizabeth Fentress and Caroline Goodson: Structures of Power: From Imperial Villa to Monastic Estate at Villamagna, Italy14: Felix Teichner: Ulpianum-Nyeuberge-Prişthine: Places of Power on the Plain of Kosovo15: Andrew Seaman: Power, Place and Territory in Early Medieval South-East Wales16: Patrick Gleeson: Making Provincial Kingship in Early Ireland: Cashel and the Creation of Munster17: Egge Knol: Living Near the Sea: The Organisation of Frisia in Early Medieval Times18: Christopher Scull: Archaeology and Geographies of Jurisdiction: Evidence from South-East Suffolk in the 7th Century19: Rory Naismith: Mints, Moneyers and the Geography of Power in Early Medieval England and its Neighbours20: Andrew Reynolds: Spatial Configurations of Power in Anglo-Saxon England: Sidelights on the Relationships between Boroughs, Royal Vills and Hundreds21: Susan Oosthuizen: Property and Governance: Making the Anglo-Saxon Agricultural LandscapeIndex

there is plenty of excellent and stimulating research on show here; the range of papers and approaches certainly makes this a volume worthy of close scrutiny by any scholar engaged with Europe in the Early Middle Ages.