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The Making of Kingdoms: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 10

edited by Tania Dickinson and David Griffiths

Rather than debate location and specifics, this collection concentrates on the interconnections and resonances of kingdoms. Papers were drawn from the 47th Sachsensymposium (York, 1996) and address areas around the North Sea and Baltic. This volume examines general models and research agenda derived from archaeology and history; the search for kingdoms on the ground (control and mobilisation of resources through economic, social and territorial organisations) and identifying kingdoms of the mind. Though many of the papers are thematic, regional interests are still well-represented in pieces ranging from Frisia (Heidinga and Gerrets) to Middle Anglia (Hines) and Denmark (Axboe). 224p, with photos and drawings (Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, 1999)

Table Of Contents

Foreword (David Griffiths)
Introduction (Tania Dickinson)

Part I. Models and Agenda
The Ethnogenesis of the Danes and the making of a Danish kingdom (Ulf Näsman)
The Frisian achievement in the First Millennium AD (Anthonie Heidinga)
Social Archaeology and Anglo-Saxon Kingdom Origins (Christopher Scull)
The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: the contribution of Written Sources (Barbara Yorke)
Imperium in Early Britain: Rhetoric and Reality in the writings of Gildas and Bede (Nicholas Higham)

Part II. Identifying kingdoms on the ground
Organising the Landscape: a matter of production, power and religion (Charlotte Fabech)
The geography of power: South Scandinavia before the Danish kingdom (Jytte Ringtved)
The West Finnish warriors and the early Svea kingship (Marianne Schaumann-Lönnqvist)
What’s so special about ‘productive sites’? Middle Saxon settlements in Northumbria (Julian Richards)
The Archaeology of Rank, by means of Diet, Gender and Kinship (Kerstin Lidén and Anders Götherström)
The British Church and the emergence of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms (Lucas Quensel-von Kalben)
Burial rites, Gender and the Creation of Kingdoms: the Evidence from seventh-century Wessex (Nick Stoodley)
Towards the Kingdom of Denmark (Morten Axboe)
Evidence of Political Centralization in Westergo: Wijinaldum-Tjitsma in a supra-regional Perspective (Danny Gerrets)
The Formation of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Lindsey (Kevin Leahy)
The Anglo-Saxon Archaeology of the Cambridgeshire Region and the Middle Anglian Kingdom (John Hines)

Part III. Identifying kingdoms in the mind
Myth and art: a passport to political authority in Scandinavia during the Migration Period (Lotte Hedeager)
The Bracteate of the Century – the new find of a unique Migration Period bracteates in Uppland, Sweden (Jan-Peder Lamm)
Monsters and birds of prey. Some reflections on form and style of the Migration period (Bente Magnus)
Kings or gods? Iconographic evidence from Scandinavian gold foil figures (Margreathe Watt)
Style II and the Anglo-Saxon Elite (Karen Høilund Nielsen)
Invisible kingdoms: the use of grave-goods in seventh-century England (Helen Geake)

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