Early Medieval Defended Communities Across Europe (Oxford, 8-10 febrero 2013)
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Early Medieval Defended Communities Across Europe: Fortified Settlements of the Eighth to Tenth Centuries AD
A weekend event to be held at Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford
While much archaeological and historical attention goes on the defence of the later Roman world and on the development of medieval castle, too often the intervening early medieval period is overlooked or misunderstood in terms of its settlements, populations and defence. Were defended communities typical in the early Middle Ages? How far was there a direct continuity from late Roman into early medieval in terms of hilltop villages and fortifi ed sites? What new sites emerged and why? Who controlled these sites? How ‘feudal’ were the landscapes of 8th- to 10th-century Europe?
This weekend conference brings together a number of experts who have excavated or studied fortifi ed sites in a variety of kingdoms, polities and regions. We aim to assess how developed our understanding of these sites is, how they were articulated and designed, their contents in terms of populations and structures, and their role in the landscape.
PROGRAM
FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2013
6.15pm Registration
7.00pm Dinner
8.15pm-9.15pm The Irish Cashel: enclosed settlement, fortified settlement or settled fortification? Evidence from on-going excavations at Caherconnell, Co. Clare, Western Ireland
MICHELLE COMBER
SATURDAY 9 FEBRUARY 2013
8.15am Breakfast (residents only)
9.15am The early medieval Irish rath, dún and crannog: social, ideological and defensive aspects of enclosure
AIDAN O’SULLIVAN
10.15am Royal courts and defended settlements in early medieval Wales
ANDREW SEAMAN
11.15am Coffee/tea
11.45am The ‘royal’ architecture of Pictland: new perspectives and new fieldwork on the hillforts, palisades and lowland settlements of eastern and northern Scotland
GORDON NOBLE
12.45pm Lunch
2.00pm The resistance, rebellion and submission of urban communities: England and northern France from the 9th to 11th
centuries
RYAN LAVELLE
3.00pm Tea/coffee
3.30pm Wessex burhs: Wallingford in context
NEIL CHRISTIE
4.30pm Fortified settlements of the 9th and 10th centuries AD in central Europe
HAJNALKA HEROLD
5.30pm Break/free time
7.00pm Dinner
8.15pm-9:15 pm Monumental expression and fortification in Denmark at the time of King Harald Bluetooth
ANNE PEDERSEN
SUNDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2013
8.15am Breakfast (residents only)
9.15am Fortified settlements of the 8th to 10th centuries AD: the case of Tuscany, Italy
MARCO VALENTI
10.15am Fortified settlements in the Byzantine south Balkans and Aegean, 8th to 10th centuries: features and contexts
ARCHIE DUNN
11.15am Coffee/tea
11.45am Did the Vikings need walls? Charting settlement forms and space in north west Europe, AD 800-1100
DAVID GRIFFITHS
12.45pm Lunch and course disperses
Contributors
DR NEIL CHRISTIE
DR MICHELLE COMBER
Lecturer, Centre for Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway
DR ARCHIE DUNN
Teaching Fellow in Byzantine Archaeology, University of Birmingham
DR DAVID GRIFFITHS
Director of Studies in Archaeology, OUDCE
DR HAJNALKA HEROLD
DR RYAN LAVELLE
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, Department of History, University of Winchester
DR GORDON NOBLE
Lecturer in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen
DR AIDAN O’SULLIVAN
Senior Lecturer, School of Archaeology, University College Dublin
ANNE PEDERSEN
Senior Researcher, Department of Danish Medieval and Renaissance, The National Museum of Denmark
DR ANDREW SEAMAN
Lecturer, Department of History and American Studies, University of Canterbury
MARCO VALENTI
Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology and Art History, University of Siena, Italy
Directors of Studies
DR NEIL CHRISTIE
Reader in Archaeology, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester
DR HAJNALKA HEROLD
Research Associate, Vienna Institute of Archaeological Science, University of Vienna, Austria bolsos de lujo imitacion
More info: www.conted.ox.ac.uk
A weekend event to be held at Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford
While much archaeological and historical attention goes on the defence of the later Roman world and on the development of medieval castle, too often the intervening early medieval period is overlooked or misunderstood in terms of its settlements, populations and defence. Were defended communities typical in the early Middle Ages? How far was there a direct continuity from late Roman into early medieval in terms of hilltop villages and fortifi ed sites? What new sites emerged and why? Who controlled these sites? How ‘feudal’ were the landscapes of 8th- to 10th-century Europe?
This weekend conference brings together a number of experts who have excavated or studied fortifi ed sites in a variety of kingdoms, polities and regions. We aim to assess how developed our understanding of these sites is, how they were articulated and designed, their contents in terms of populations and structures, and their role in the landscape.
PROGRAM
FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2013
6.15pm Registration
7.00pm Dinner
8.15pm-9.15pm The Irish Cashel: enclosed settlement, fortified settlement or settled fortification? Evidence from on-going excavations at Caherconnell, Co. Clare, Western Ireland
MICHELLE COMBER
SATURDAY 9 FEBRUARY 2013
8.15am Breakfast (residents only)
9.15am The early medieval Irish rath, dún and crannog: social, ideological and defensive aspects of enclosure
AIDAN O’SULLIVAN
10.15am Royal courts and defended settlements in early medieval Wales
ANDREW SEAMAN
11.15am Coffee/tea
11.45am The ‘royal’ architecture of Pictland: new perspectives and new fieldwork on the hillforts, palisades and lowland settlements of eastern and northern Scotland
GORDON NOBLE
12.45pm Lunch
2.00pm The resistance, rebellion and submission of urban communities: England and northern France from the 9th to 11th
centuries
RYAN LAVELLE
3.00pm Tea/coffee
3.30pm Wessex burhs: Wallingford in context
NEIL CHRISTIE
4.30pm Fortified settlements of the 9th and 10th centuries AD in central Europe
HAJNALKA HEROLD
5.30pm Break/free time
7.00pm Dinner
8.15pm-9:15 pm Monumental expression and fortification in Denmark at the time of King Harald Bluetooth
ANNE PEDERSEN
SUNDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2013
8.15am Breakfast (residents only)
9.15am Fortified settlements of the 8th to 10th centuries AD: the case of Tuscany, Italy
MARCO VALENTI
10.15am Fortified settlements in the Byzantine south Balkans and Aegean, 8th to 10th centuries: features and contexts
ARCHIE DUNN
11.15am Coffee/tea
11.45am Did the Vikings need walls? Charting settlement forms and space in north west Europe, AD 800-1100
DAVID GRIFFITHS
12.45pm Lunch and course disperses
Contributors
DR NEIL CHRISTIE
DR MICHELLE COMBER
Lecturer, Centre for Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway
DR ARCHIE DUNN
Teaching Fellow in Byzantine Archaeology, University of Birmingham
DR DAVID GRIFFITHS
Director of Studies in Archaeology, OUDCE
DR HAJNALKA HEROLD
DR RYAN LAVELLE
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, Department of History, University of Winchester
DR GORDON NOBLE
Lecturer in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen
DR AIDAN O’SULLIVAN
Senior Lecturer, School of Archaeology, University College Dublin
ANNE PEDERSEN
Senior Researcher, Department of Danish Medieval and Renaissance, The National Museum of Denmark
DR ANDREW SEAMAN
Lecturer, Department of History and American Studies, University of Canterbury
MARCO VALENTI
Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology and Art History, University of Siena, Italy
Directors of Studies
DR NEIL CHRISTIE
Reader in Archaeology, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester
DR HAJNALKA HEROLD
Research Associate, Vienna Institute of Archaeological Science, University of Vienna, Austria bolsos de lujo imitacion
More info: www.conted.ox.ac.uk