IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 212: Urbanism and Rurality in Early Medieval Northern Europe, II: Urbanism
Monday 9 July 2007, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | John Naylor, Department of Archaeology, University of York / Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Richard Hall, York Archaeological Trust |
| Paper 212-a | From Mynsterstow to Borough: Minster-Towns, Big Tenements and Urban Differentiation in England, 950-1100 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Economics - Rural, Economics - Urban |
| Paper 212-b | Early Urban Form and Function in Saxon England: The Case of Wallingford (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Economics - Urban |
| Paper 212-c | The Growth of an Urban Landscape: Recent Research in Early Medieval Norwich (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Economics - Urban |
| Abstract | Approaches to urban and rural in early medieval northern Europe usually form distinct fields of research. Much work in the last fifteen years has focused towards gaining greater understanding of regional patterns of settlement and economy. This has had a fundamental impact on the way we perceive the role and function of rural areas in societal and economic change and there is now a growing need to integrate this with steadily increasing evidence from urban sites. This session focuses towards recent work on early medieval towns, and how this is modifying our understanding of the nature of urbanism and their relationship to hinterlands. |