2013
DOI: 10.1179/1461957113y.0000000035
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Assembly in North West Europe: Collective Concerns for Early Societies?

Abstract: The archaeological study of assembly practices in the medieval west is often met with scepticism. The reliance on late documentary records and place-names, and the difficulties inherent in defining what actually constituted an ‘assembly’, are just some of the issues that face researchers. This paper brings together some of the first collated and excavated evidence by the HERA TAP project 1, and offers a cross-European perspective, drawing attention to the great variety of systems and types of structure created… Show more

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“…7). Early Medieval assembly sites, although often with little in the way of structural elements, echo the nature of (some) oppida, with their focus on manipulating landscape settings as major meeting places, whilst at the same time being morphologically incredibly diverse (Semple and Sanmark 2013).…”
Section: Oppida As Powerscapesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…7). Early Medieval assembly sites, although often with little in the way of structural elements, echo the nature of (some) oppida, with their focus on manipulating landscape settings as major meeting places, whilst at the same time being morphologically incredibly diverse (Semple and Sanmark 2013).…”
Section: Oppida As Powerscapesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Semple and Sanmark 2013), is often hard to prove because they frequently lack structural evidence. Such locations, however, may explain the choice of oppida sites, on dominant mountain tops and in marshy valleys, seemingly ill-suited to traditional forms of urbanism.…”
Section: Oppida As Assembly Placesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…See also Gondek 2010 for discussion of the place-name evidence. 135 Brookes and Reynolds 2011, 235-40; see also Sanmark 2013 andWilliams 2002;. Williams argues that some of the large-scale cremation cemeteries of Anglo-Saxon England were a form of central place.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Such traditions of “participatory justice” continued at the local level until the High Middle Ages.” (Korpiola , 96). Germanic and Scandinavian assemblies were specifically described by Tacitus in around 98 CE and their textual and material traces are studied by historians and archaeologists (Bårdseth ; Burmeister ; Sanmark and Semple ; Semple and Sanmark ; Skre ; Sundqvist ).…”
Section: Stenriketmentioning
confidence: 99%