IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1050: The Use of Water and Wetlands at the End of the Early Middle Ages, I: Perception and Formation of Water and Wetlands
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Marco Panato, Department of History, University of Nottingham Lukas Werther, Institut für Orientalistik, Indogermanistik und Ur- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Abteilung Byzanzforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Paper 1050-a | Prospection, Reconstruction, Modelling: A Geoscientific Perspective on (Early) Medieval Wetlands (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Computing in Medieval Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Paper 1050-b | Water Meadows in Early Medieval England: Toponymies, Topologies, Typologies (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Geography and Settlement Studies, Onomastics |
| Paper 1050-c | Place Names in the Medieval Water and Wetland Landscape of East Central Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Onomastics |
| Abstract | This multisession panel is aimed to provide a multidisciplinary approach - combining written sources, archaeological evidence, and proxy data - on the use of water and wetlands at the end of the Early Middle Ages (8th-10th century). Water has always been considered as a valuable resource for past societies, but its proximity did also constitute a serious danger. In the Early Middle Ages, many regions have been dominated by water and wetlands. This session focuses on perceptions and formation processes of early medieval wetlands in order to better understand these landscapes. |