Are you referring to the following?
Assembly Places and Practices in Medieval Europe by Aliki Pantos and Sarah
Semple (Hardcover - 31 Mar 2002).
N. Scott Catledge
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John Briggs
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Subject: [EPNL] Landscapes of Governance
There hasn't been any discussion of the "Landscapes of Governance"
Project ( http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/project/assembly/index.htm ).
This is a three-year interdisciplinary research project bringing
archaeology, place-names and written sources together in a national
study of early medieval assembly sites in England, 5th to 11th
centuries. One of the outcomes will be an online "Electronic Anderson".
There is even a conference in March:
http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/details.php?id=O10P131AHR
The thing is, I'm not convinced about the premises for the project: in
my neck of the woods you just can't identify Hundred Meeting Places. But
Stuart Brookes says "The hitherto best piece of work on early medieval
assembly sites is Aliki Panto's (sadly unpublished) PhD thesis in which
she surveyed the evidence of the meeting places of the Midlands shires.
About a third of the hundred meeting places were closely identifiable
(i.e. to within 100-200m) and there are also a number of 'other'
(archaic, multi-hundred, etc) meeting places which were also suggested
by historiographical, toponymic or folkloric associations."
What do people think?
John Briggs
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