UrbNet seminar: Emporia, trade and cultural change in Early Medieval Europe
Seminar at UrbNet, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions with lectures by our Visiting Professor Richard Hodges and others.
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Centre for Urban Network Evolutions, Aarhus University, Moesgård Allé 20, 8270 Højbjerg, Denmark (Building 4230-232)
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Seminar Programme
13:00: Søren M. Sindbæk (UrbNet, Aarhus University): Welcome and Introduction
13:10: Richard Hodges (The American University of Rome): Becoming Europe: re-tracing the origin of Medieval Cities from Comacchio and Oegstgeest
13:50: Femke Lippok (Leiden University): The Rural Riches perspective. Reflections on bottom-up approaches to Early Medieval North Western Europe
14:30 Wim Kemme (Leiden University): Dorestad Recentred. The implications of rural archaeology for our views on the town and early medieval exchange
15:10 Sarah Croix (UrbNet, Aarhus University): Reconciling permanency and seasonality in the early medieval emporia: the temporality of craft production and the question of the “itinerant” artisan in Viking-Age Ribe
15:50 Concluding questions.
16:00 Reception in the UrbNet lunch area