Urbanism in the North-Eastern Danelaw c.400-1066 : with special reference to Anglo-Scandinavian York
Urbanism in the North-Eastern Danelaw c.400-1066 : with special reference to Anglo-Scandinavian York
Evidence for urban development during the post-Roman - pre-Norman period in Yorkshire and the East Midlands, 'the essential Danelaw' (Stenton 1927a,, 213), is surveyed against a background of source criticism and comparanda from relevant areas of Britain and Europe. Emphasis is placed upon the correct dating and interpretation of archaeologically excavated data, which are calibrated against a chronological framework provided by contemporary documentation to allow the comparison of events in the early-Saxon, mid-Saxon, Viking and Anglo-Scandinavian periods. Availability of evidence focuses the study principally upon York and the 'Five Boroughs' of Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham and Stamford, although evidence for other, mostly smaller, centres is also discussed. Several of the six principal sites had been regional nuclei in the prehistoric or Roman eras; and all appear to have been locally or regionally significant in the mid-Saxon period, even if the nature of this prominence is not always clear. At both York and Lincoln, the two largest defended sites, there is sufficient evidence to show that there was regeneration in the period of Viking control, and an expansion of overseas links; elsewhere the impact of Viking settlement cannot be judged. Between recapture by the English and the Norman conquest York and Lincoln have yielded further evidence for redevelopment with concomitant manufacturing and trading growth, and York appears to have been in the forefront of contemporary English urban development. Tangible evidence for the historically attested developments at the other four sites remains elusive.
University of Southampton
Hall, R. A
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1985
Hall, R. A
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Hall, R. A
(1985)
Urbanism in the North-Eastern Danelaw c.400-1066 : with special reference to Anglo-Scandinavian York.
University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.
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Evidence for urban development during the post-Roman - pre-Norman period in Yorkshire and the East Midlands, 'the essential Danelaw' (Stenton 1927a,, 213), is surveyed against a background of source criticism and comparanda from relevant areas of Britain and Europe. Emphasis is placed upon the correct dating and interpretation of archaeologically excavated data, which are calibrated against a chronological framework provided by contemporary documentation to allow the comparison of events in the early-Saxon, mid-Saxon, Viking and Anglo-Scandinavian periods. Availability of evidence focuses the study principally upon York and the 'Five Boroughs' of Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham and Stamford, although evidence for other, mostly smaller, centres is also discussed. Several of the six principal sites had been regional nuclei in the prehistoric or Roman eras; and all appear to have been locally or regionally significant in the mid-Saxon period, even if the nature of this prominence is not always clear. At both York and Lincoln, the two largest defended sites, there is sufficient evidence to show that there was regeneration in the period of Viking control, and an expansion of overseas links; elsewhere the impact of Viking settlement cannot be judged. Between recapture by the English and the Norman conquest York and Lincoln have yielded further evidence for redevelopment with concomitant manufacturing and trading growth, and York appears to have been in the forefront of contemporary English urban development. Tangible evidence for the historically attested developments at the other four sites remains elusive.
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Published date: 1985
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