Northwest Europe in the Early Middle Ages, c.AD 600-1150 : A Comparative Archaeology (Paperback)

Part I. Context: 1. Introduction; 2. The social fabric of Northwest Europe, AD 600?1150: paradigms and perspectives; Part II. The Age of the Carolingians, c.AD 600?900: 3. Small farming communities of West Francia, AD 600?900; 4. Larger farming communities, specialist producers and collectors in West Francia, AD 600?900; 5. Farming communities of Anglo-Saxon England and the Atlantic fringes, AD 600?900; 6. Expressions of leadership and models for emulation, AD 500?900; 7. Conspicuous consumption and secular authority in the landscape, AD 650?900; 8. Diocesan towns, AD 600?900; 9. Ports and maritime-oriented societies, AD 600?900; Part III. From the Viking Age to Angevin Hegemony: 10. Transformations in architectures and settings of public power, AD 900?1150; 11. The rural world, AD 900?1150: lifestyles of old and new aristocracies; 12. The rural world, AD 900?1150: social mobility, landscape reorganisation and colonization; 13. Major ports and merchant patricians as catalysts for social change, AD 900?1100; 14. Towns as regional centres and urban diversity, AD 900?1150; 15. Final conclusions.