Alternative Development Strategies in SubSaharan Africa

Frontcover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Linguistic Conventions and Abbreviations......Page 16
Abstracts......Page 17
Introduction: Frisians – Who, When, Where, Why?......Page 22
1. Palaeogeography and People:Historical Frisians in an archaeological light......Page 26
2. The Anglo-Frisian Question......Page 46
3. Frisian between the Roman and the Early Medieval Periods:Language contact, Celts and Romans......Page 64
4. ‘All quiet on the Western Front?’ The Western Netherlandsand the ‘North Sea Culture’ in the Migration Period......Page 74
5. Power and Identity in the Southern North Sea Area:The Migration and Merovingian Periods......Page 96
6. How ‘English’ is the Early Frisian Runic Corpus?The evidence of sounds and forms......Page 114
7. The Geography and Dialects of Old Saxon: River-basin communication networksand the distributional patterns of North Sea Germanic features in Old Saxon......Page 146
8. Between Sievern and Gudendorf: Enclosed sites in the north-western Elbe–Weser triangle and their significance in respect of society, communication and migration during the Roman Iron Age and Migration Period......Page 170
9. Cultural Convergence in a Maritime Context: Language and material cultureas parallel phenomena in the early-medieval southern North Sea region......Page 194
10. The Kingdom of East Anglia, Frisia and Continental Connections, c. ad 600–900......Page 214
11. A Comparison of the Injury Tariffs in the Early Kentish andthe Frisian Law Codes......Page 244
12. Cultural Contacts between the Western Baltic, the North Sea Regionand Scandinavia: Attributing runic finds to runic traditions andcorpora of the Early Viking Age......Page 264
Index......Page 294