IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 515: On the Fringes of Empire: Local and Supra-Local Identities beyond the Carolingian Realm, I
Tuesday 8 July 2014, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Foundations of the European Space 2 (FES2) Research Network |
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| Organiser: | Letty Ten Harkel, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford |
| Moderator/Chair: | Wendy Davies, Independent Scholar, Faringdon |
| Paper 515-a | Impact of Empires: The Scandinavian Fringe, c. 200-1000 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Economics - Trade, Geography and Settlement Studies, Law |
| Paper 515-b | On the Edge of Empire: Identities on Walcheren (the Netherlands) in the 10th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - Sites, Economics - Trade, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Paper 515-c | Peasant Communities and Distant Elites in Early Medieval Asturias: An Archaeological Approach (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Economics - Rural, Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History |
| Abstract | The Carolingian empire is often regarded as the driving force behind socio-economic and political developments in Europe during the latter part of the first millennium. This viewpoint, resulting in part from a better range of surviving documentary sources, implies other regions in north-west Europe were marginal, existing only in relation to the greater power of the Carolingian empire. This two-part session seeks to redress the imbalance by focusing on the interaction between local and non-local identities in different regions on the fringes of the Carolingian world: Scandinavia, Anglo-Saxon Wessex, the coastal zone of modern-day Netherlands, and the early medieval states of the Iberian peninsula further south. |