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

List of maps [vii]
List of illustrations [viii]
Acknowledgements [xii]
Maps of places mentioned in the text [xv]
Drawing conventions for site plans [xxiii]
Part I. Context [1]
1. Introduction [3]
2. The social fabric of Northwest Europe, AD 600–1150: paradigms and perspectives [9]
Part II. The Age of the Carolingians, c. AD 600–900 [31]
3. Small farming communities of West Francia, AD 600–900 [33]
4. Larger farming communities, specialist producers and collectors in West Francia, AD 600–900 [57]
5. Farming communities of Anglo-Saxon England and the Atlantic fringes, AD 600–900 [76]
6. Expressions of leadership and models for emulation, AD 500–900 [98]
7. Conspicuous consumption and secular authority in the landscape, AD 650–900 [124]
8 .Diocesan towns, AD 600–900 [151]
9. Ports and maritime-oriented societies, AD 600–900 [178]
Part III. From the Viking Age to Angevin Hegemony, c. AD 900–1150 [213]
10. Transformations in architectures and settings of public power, AD 900–1150 [215]
11. The rural world, AD 900–1150: lifestyles of old and new aristocracies [249]
12. The rural world, AD 900–1150: social mobility, landscape reorganisation and colonisation [274]
13. Major ports and merchant patricians as catalysts for social change, AD 900–1100 [302]
14. Towns as regional centres and urban diversity, AD 900–1150 [328]
15. Final conclusions [361]
Bibliography [368]
Index [433]