Negotiating the North : meeting-places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea zone / / Sarah Semple [and six others]

• Autore: Semple Sarah <1973->
• Pubblicazione: 2020; London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2021; ©2021
• Edizione: 1 ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (371 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 343.430942
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Classificazione: HIS015000HIS037010
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Negotiating the North
• ISBN: 9781003045663; 1003045669; 9781000096682; 1000096688
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910476775203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Society for Medieval Archaeology monograph ; ; 41.