IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 615: On the Fringes of Empire: Local and Supra-Local Identities beyond the Carolingian Realm, II
Tuesday 8 July 2014, 11.15-12.45
| 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: | Julio Escalona, Instituto de Historia, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid |
| Paper 615-a | Empire and Infrastructure: The Case of Wessex in the 9th and 10th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archaeology - Sites, Economics - Trade, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Paper 615-b | Local Communities and Kingship South of the Duero, 9th-11th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Economics - Rural, Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History |
| Paper 615-c | The Astur-Leonese Power and the Localities: Changing Collective Spaces, 10th-12th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, 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. |