Research Catalog

Title

Trade and communication networks of the first millennium AD in the northern part of Central Europe : central places, beach markets, landing places and trading centres / herausgegeben von Babette Ludowici ... [et al.].

Publication

Stuttgart : Theiss, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ludowici, Babette.
• Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover

Description

383 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 30 cm.

Series Statement

Neue Studien zur Sachsenforschung ; Band 1

Uniform Title

Neue Studien zur Sachsenforschung Bd. 1.

Alternative Title

Central places, beach markets, landing places and trading centres

Subject

• To 1500
• Business > Europe, Central > History > To 1500
• Communication > Europe, Central > History > To 1500
• Trading posts > Europe, Central > History > To 1500
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Europe, Central
• Europe, Northern > Commerce > History > To 1500
• Europe, Central > Commerce > History > To 1500

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The conception of "central places" in time and space -- "Central places" as a point of discussion from German geography in (pre)historical research / Winfried Schenk -- Types, meaning and significance of "central places" in the Germanic provinces of the Roman Empire / Marion Brüggler -- The search for central places in the Merovingian kingdom / Jörg Drauschke -- The evidence of central places in place names / Jürgen Udolph -- Questions concerning continuity through the centuries : casestudies -- Case study 1 : The Elbe-Weser region in Germany (the regions of Sievern and Stade in the first millenium AD) / Hauke Jöns -- Response to case study 1 : Power formation and the rise of central places in the Elbe-Weser region and the coastal area of the northern Netherlands -- a comparison / Johan A.W. Nicolay -- Case study 2 : Uppåkra--Lund : a central place and a town? Western Scania in the Viking Age / Birgitta Hårdh -- Comment on Uppåkra--Lund : a central place and a town? Western Scania in the Viking Age / Claus von Carnap-Bornheim -- Case study 3 : Trading centers -- Hanseatic towns on the southern Baltic Coast : structural continuity or a new start? / Ulrich Müller -- General comment on Trading centers -- Hanseatic towns on the southern Baltic Coast : structural continuity or a new start? (U. Müller) / Rolf Bärenfänger -- Trade contacts in the reflection of the finds -- Silver, weights and scales around the Baltic, 8th to 11th centuries / Sebastian Brather -- General comment on : Silver, weights and scales around the Baltic, 8th to 11th centuries (S. Brather) / Christoph Kilger -- Trade contacts as reflected in archaeological finds : costume accessories / Sunhild Kleingärtner -- Comments on : Trade contacts as reflected in archaeological finds : costume accessories (S. Kleingärtner) / Iben Skibsted Klæsøe -- Remains of the Viking-Age goldsmith's craft and workshop / Barbara Armbruster -- Comments on : Remains of the Viking-Age goldsmith's craft and workshop (B. Armbruster) / Heiko Steuer.
• Central places and their hinterland : examples and casestudies -- Centrality and places : the central place Skiringssal in Vestfold, Norway / Dagfinn Skre -- Comments on: Centrality and places : the central place Skiringssal in Vestfold, Norway (D. Skre) / Michael Müller-Wille -- Central places and fortifications : the case study Deventer and Zutphen : a medieval Burgenordnung in the eastern Netherlands? / Michael H. Bartels and Michel Groothedde -- Comment on : Central places and fortifications : the case study Deventer and Zutphen : a medieval Burgenordnung in the eastern Netherlands? (M. Bartels and M. Groothedde) / Martin Segschneider -- The hinterland of the early medieval trading places Wolin and Menzlin : a comparison / Donat Wehner -- The Baltic emporia and their hinterland--comments on Donat Wehner's study of Wolin and Menzlin / Mateusz Bogucki -- Gudme and Tissø : two magnates' complexes in Denmark from the 3rd to the 11th century AD / Lars Jørgensen -- Comments on : Gudme and Tissø : two magnates' complexes in Denmark from the 3rd to the 11th century AD (L. Jørgensen) / Dagfinn Skre -- Means of transport and trade routes--routes to central places? -- Water transport : specialized landing-places in the coastal areas of northwestern Germany in the first millenium AD / Jonathan Scheschkewitz -- A comment on : Water transport : specialized landing-places in the coastal areas of northwestern Germany in the first millenium AD (J. Scheschkewitz) / Jens Ulriksen -- Traffic-related reflections on Norway's prehistory and some remarks about Sweden / Oliver Grimm -- Towards an archaeology of transport : some comments on : Traffic-related reflections on Norway's prehistory and some remarks about Sweden (O. Grimm) / Jan Bill -- Overland routes as markers for central places : the Hellweg between Rhine and Elbe / Babette Ludowici -- Overland routes, transport and power : some comments on : Overland routes as markers for central places : the Hellweg between Rhine and Elbe (B. Ludowici) / Volker Hilberg.
• Structures of rule and religion -- Structures of power and religion according to the written sources / Matthias Hardt -- What did early medieval authors know about structures of governance and religion in northern Central Europe? (A comment on M. Hardt) / Przemyslaw Urbańczyk -- '--and hold therein feasts of sacrifice'--archaeological perspectives on the sacral functions and significance of Late Iron Age Scandinavian central places / Andres S. Dobat -- Comments on : '--and hold therein feasts of sacrifice'--archaeological perspectives on the sacral functions and significance of Late Iron Age Scandinavian central places (A. Dobat) / Alexandra Pesch -- Summary Trade and communication networks of the first millennium AD in the northern part of Central Europe--central places, beach markets, landing places and trading centers : summary and perspectives / Michael Müller-Wille.

ISBN

9783806224122 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 651891369
• SCSB-12080328

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library