This paper explores the functioning of coastal societies against the background of the
changing role of coastal 'contact zones' on both sides of the Channel and southern North …

With few exceptions current research on early medieval town development in Europe holds
a consistent view of the decisive social forces that are thought to have stimulated progress in …

This contribution to the study of elites and their importance in the creation and spread of
dominant, ruling ideologies and social practices during the early Middle Ages focuses on the …

In the twelfth to sixteenth centuries, the exploitation of landownership underwent drastic
changes in various parts of Northwestern Europe. In these changes, the emergence of the …

Since the middle of the thirteenth century, the small outport of Monnikerede was part of the
portuary system of the later medieval international market of Bruges, which used the Zwin …

The present paper demonstrates how metal detectorists' collections potentially form an
important addition to the extant corpus of early medieval non-ferrous metalwork. Several …

Depuis une décennie, les recherches en archéologie préventive se sont multipliées dans la
partie française de la plaine maritime flamande. Les données issues de ces opérations sont …

The previous chapter demonstrated that the archaeological recovery of early medieval
settlement morphologies, when matched to appropriate theoretical frameworks, enables …

The coastal wetlands of the former county of Flanders, situated on the border area of
Belgium and the Netherlands, belong geographically to a late Holocene landscape that …

English place-name studies rarely acknowledge that many of the name-types they examine
are also present on the opposite side of the North Sea. Conversely, continental toponymists …