Power and place in Later Roman and early medieval Europe:
interdisciplinary perspectives on governance and civil organization
UCL Institute of Archaeology, London. 10-12 November 2011
Programme
All lectures are in room G6. Meals and Coffee Rm 612
Thursday 10 Nov
10.00-10.45: Registration and coffee
10.45-11.00: Introduction and welcome
1. 11.00-11.30: Lisa Fentress and Caroline Goodson: Imperial transitions on an agricultural estate: villa to
village at Villa Magna (Italy)
2. 11.30-12.00: Werner Eck: A Roman city in German hands: Cologne in the transition from late Antiquity to the
early medieval period
3. 12.00-12.30: Christine Delaplace: The administrative evolution of Roman and Barbarian Gaul and Spain
during the 5th century
12.30-12.45: questions
12.45-13.45: lunch
4. 13.45-14.15: Sue Oosthuizen: Common rights and Anglo-Saxon identity
5. 14.15-14.45: Levi Roach: Locating Meaning: Meeting Places of the witan 924–1016
6. 14.45-15.15: John Hudson: Assemblies, Courts, and Law Courts, from Alfred to Magna Carta
15.15-15.30: questions
15.30-16.00: coffee
7. 16.00-16.30: John Baker: tbc
8. 16.30-17.00: Marie Ødegaard: Assembly sites location, functions and chronological changes in ON Viken,
Norway - preliminary results
9. 17.00-17.30: Heiki Valk: The question of assembly sites east of the Baltic Sea: the case of Estonia
17.30-17.45: questions
17.45- free time
19.30- speaker’s dinner
Friday 11 Nov
10. 9.00-9.30: Julio Escalona: tbc
11. 9.30-10.00: Isabel Alfonso: Judicial assemblies in Northern-Iberia (9th-11th c.): location, composition and
conflict causes
12. 10.00-10.30: Wendy Davies: The language of justice in northern Iberia before the millennium
10.30-10.45: questions
10.45-11.15: coffee
13. 11.15-11.45: Adriana Ciesielska: Western Poland at the turn of Antiquity and the Middle Ages - break or
continuity of power structures?
14. 11.45-12.15: Egge Knol: Living near the sea: The organization of Frisia in Early Medieval times
15. 12.15-12.45: Tudor Skinner: A thinning mist? : archaeological approaches to the identification and analysis of
the Norse and Anglo-Saxon assembly landscapes of Northumbria
12.45-13.00: questions
13.00-14.00: lunch
16. 14.00-14.30: Stephen Driscoll: Scottish Assembly Places: tradition, innovation and nation building
17. 14.30-15.00: Félix Teichner and Kemajl Lucij: Creating a place of Power for the ‘Field of the Blackbirds’ –
Kosovo in Late Roman and Medieval Europe
18. 15.00-15.30: Keith Briggs: Power and place-names: did early English rulers use Roman-style province names?
15.30-15.45: questions
15.45-16.15: coffee
19. 16.15-16.45: Stuart Brookes: ‘Folk’ cemeteries, assembly and territorial geography in early Anglo-Saxon
England
20. 16.45-17.15: Alexandra Chavaria: Churches and cemeteries as assembly places in Lombard Italy
17.15-17.30: questions
17.30-19.30: South cloister poster display
21. 19.30-20.30: Public lecture: Andrew Reynolds: Beheading, drowning and hanging: the archaeology of judicial
killing in Anglo-Saxon England. (Cruciform Lecture Theatre)
20.30-22.00: wine reception
Saturday 12 Nov
22. 9.00-9.30: Patrick Gleeson: Landscapes of Kingship and the Politics of Geography: Cashel and the Making of a
Provincial Capitol in Early Ireland
23. 9.30-10.00: Andrew Seaman: Multiple Estates Reconsidered: Power and State Formation in Early Medieval
Wales
24. 10.00-10.30: Nancy Edwards: Assembly and Royal Inauguration Sites in Early Medieval Wales: the Pillar of
Eliseg
10.30-10.45: questions
10.45-11.15: coffee
25. 11.15-11.45: Frode Iversen: Conquer and divide? The changing role of the þing in Northern Europe AD 200–
1200
26. 11.45-12.15: Lars Jørgensen: The manorial complex from the 6th–11th century AD at Lake Tissø, Denmark.
The identification of the assembly function connected to elite residences
27. 12.15-12.45: Philip Dunshea: Literary and Historical Landscapes of post-Roman North Britain
12.45-13.00: questions
13.00-14.00: lunch
28. 14.00-14.30: Chris Scull: Long-distance exchange and landscapes of jurisdiction in southeast Suffolk in the
7th century.
29. 14.30-15.00: Rory Naismith: Minting-Places and Moneyers in Anglo-Saxon England and its Neighbours
30. 15.00-15.30: Helena Hamerow: The Origins of Wessex Project: Mapping the Kingdom of the Gewisse
15.30-15.45: questions
15.45-16.00: Summing up and disperse, Barbara Yorke