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Willemsen, Annemarieke, and Hanneke Kik (eds), Golden middle ages in Europe: new research into early-medieval communities and identities, Turnhout: Brepols, 2015.

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Work
Golden middle ages in Europe: new research into early-medieval communities and identities
Place
Turnhout
Publisher
Brepols
Year
2015
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Abstract (cited)
Dorestad was an important harbour town in the middle of the present-day Netherlands, that had its hey-day in the Carolingian period, but was already an important settlement in the centuries before, with a famous 7th-century Frankish mint. In July 2014, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden hosted the second Dorestad congress, exactly five years after the first. This congress was attached to the exhibition ‘Golden Middle Ages: The Netherlands in the Merovingian World, 400-700 ad’ and brought together historians, archaeologists and linguists to discuss these ‘Dark Ages’, their burials and settlements, rituals and identities, and the position of the Low Countries in the world-wide networks of early-medieval Europe. Contributions in these congress proceedings are devoted to key themes like early-medieval identity and agency, so-called royal burials in Europe, significant find categories like garnets, coins and Merovingian glass, important new sites and finds from the Low Countries and recent work in the Carolingian ‘vicus famosus’ of Dorestad.
Subjects and topics
History, society and culture
Places
Keywords
Merovingians
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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October 2016, last updated: November 2022