Frisians of the Early Middle Ages (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hines, John; IJssennagger-van der Pluijm, Nelleke

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Produktbeschreibung

Multi-disciplinary approaches shed fresh light on the Frisian people and their changing cultures.

Frisian is a name that came to be identified with one of the territorially expansive, Germanic-speaking peoples of the Early Middle Ages, occupying coastal lands south and south-east of the North Sea. Highly varied manifestations of Frisian-ness can be traced in and around the north-western corner of the European continent in cultural, linguistic, ethnic and political forms across two thousand years to the present day.
The thematic studies in this volume foreground how diverse "Frisians" in different places and contexts could be. They draw on a range of multi-disciplinary sources and methodologies to explore a comprehensive range of social, economic and ideological aspects of early Frisian culture, from the Dutch province of Zeeland in the south-west to the North Frisian region in the north-east. Chronologically, there is an emphasis on the crucial developments of the seventh and eighth centuries AD, alongside demonstrations of how later evidence can retrospectively clarify long-term processes of group formation.The essays here thus add substantial new evidence to our understanding of a crucial stage in the evolution of an identity which had to develop and adapt to changing influences and pressures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800101326
• Artikelnr.: 63205568

Autorenporträt

Edited by John Hines and Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Frisians
of the Early Middle Ages: An Archaeoethnological Perspective Nelleke
IJssennagger-van der Pluijm, John Hines and Ian Wood 2. For Daily Use and
Special Moments: Material Culture in Frisia, AD 400-1000 Egge Knol 3. The
Frisians and their Pottery: Social Relations before and after the Fourth
Century AD Annet Nieuwhof 4. Landscape, Trade and Power in Early-medieval
Frisia Gilles de Langen and J. A. Mol 5. Law and Political Organisation of
the Early Medieval Frisians (c. AD 600-800) Han Nijdam 6. Recent
Developments in Early-medieval Settlement Archaeology: The North Frisian
Point of View Bente Sven Majchczack 7. Franks and Frisians Ian Wood 8.
Mirror Histories: Frisians and Saxons from the First to the Ninth Century
AD Robert Flierman 9. Structured by the Sea: Rethinking Maritime
Connectivity of the Early-medieval Frisians Nelleke IJssennagger-van der
Pluijm 10. Art, Symbolism and the Expression of Group Identities in
Early-medieval Frisia J. A. W. Nicolay 11. Religion and Conversion amongst
the Frisians John Hines 12. Traces of a North Sea Germanic Idiom in the
Fifth-Seventh Centuries AD Arjen P. Versloot 13. Runic Literacy in
North-West Europe, with a Focus on Frisia Tineke Looijenga Final Discussion
List of Contributors