The 10th Century in Western Europe

Change and Continuity

Igor Santos Salazar, Catarina Tente, Igor Santos Salazar, Catarina Tente

• Publisher: Archaeopress Access Archaeology
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781803275147
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: History

The 10th century in Western Europe includes eleven essays, ranging from Portugal to Iceland, including Spain, England, Ireland, France and Italy, embracing a variety of methodological approaches and scrutinizing numerous and diverse types of sources, including archaeological finds along with textual evidence such as historical narratives, hagiography, and cartularies. The contributions revise, challenge and enhance the existing scholarship on early medieval societies and their political and social complexities, while making readers aware of the wide-ranging and intertwined processes which defined change and continuity in tenth-century Western Europe. Essays from both historians and archaeologists achieve a re-reading of a the tenth century, which has been central to the interpretation of the historical development of Europe over the past decade.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Information
• Copyright Information
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Introduction
• Robert Portass
• Rulers and Resources in Early Medieval Iberia from c.800- c.1009: Umayyad state fiscality and Astur-Leonese landed politics compared
• Constructing Christian Polities in Northwestern Iberia (711-1109): an overview
• Maria João Branco
• The contributions of the settlement to the understanding of the rural societies of Northern Gaul in the 10th century
• Édith Peytremann
• Transforming Rulership in Tenth-Century Ireland: paradigms, problems and prospects
• Assembly practices in 10th-century England: continuities and innovations in military mobilisation
• Stuart Brookes
• The creation of a Visigothic past and the territorial expansion of the Kingdom of Asturias-León
• Monastic foundations as aristocratic strategies during the 10th century in the North-West Iberian Peninsula. The case of the Eriz family.
• Maddalena Betti
• The Social Reproduction of the Roman aristocracy in the 9th and 10th Centuries. Liutprand of Cremona and the women of the pope
• The 10th century in central-northern Portugal: changing scales of power
• The formation of a native elite: The case of 10th century Iceland
• Is there room enough for a change? 10th century historical narratives’concepts of change
• Change and continuity in tenth century Western Europe: A conclusion