IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 139: Exploring the Relationships between Political Communities in the Atlantic Arc, 5th-11th Centuries
Monday 4 July 2016, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Álvaro Carvajal Castro, School of Archaeology University College Dublin |
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Moderator/Chair: | Álvaro Carvajal Castro, School of Archaeology University College Dublin |
Paper 139-a | Contact Zones, Kingdoms, and Transculturality: The Northern Atlantic Arc, c. 700 - c. 1100 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History |
Paper 139-b | Polities and Kingdoms in Early Medieval Wales: Continuity, Change, and Geography (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History |
Abstract | Recent research on early medieval polities has focused on the links between local societies and their overarching political structures, but how did different political communities influence each other, and how did this affect the way in which they developed over time? This session will address the interaction between different social groups in different regions of the Atlantic Arc. Though largely left out from wider debates on this period, the papers in this session will show that the evidence from these regions has much to contribute to our understanding of wider social processes in early medieval Western Europe. |