Topics explored include the transition from Iron Age to Early Medieval societies and the development of secular power centres, the Early Medieval intervention in prehistoric landscapes, and the management of resources necessary to build kingdoms.
This cross-disciplinary volume includes contributions focussing on archaeology, artefacts, art-history and history, and considers themes that connect Scotland with key processes and phenomena happening elsewhere in Europe. Though long regarded as somehow peripheral to continental Europe, people in Early Medieval Scotland had mastered complex technologies and were part of sophisticated intellectual networks. Christianity flourished in the early middle ages and this shift dramatically affected the art that was created across Europe. Far from a ‘dark age’, Early Medieval Scotland (AD 300–900) was a crucible of different languages and cultures, the world of the Picts, Scots, Britons and Anglo-Saxons. The collapse of Charlemagne’s empire and a fresh wave of invasions led to a restructuring of medieval society. It also produced Charlemagne, the greatest ruler of the Middle Ages, whose reign was a model for centuries to come.
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This edited volume explores how (what is today) Scotland can be compared with, contrasted to, or was connected with other parts of Early Medieval Europe. The longest-lasting of these kingdoms, that of the Franks, laid the foundation for later European states. Request PDF On Jan 1, 2009, Dieter Quast published Foreigners in Early Medieval Europe: Thirteen International Studies on Early Medieval Mobility Find.
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