Medieval Worlds • No. 13 • 2021 • Movement and Mobility I & Ideologies of Translation III (original) (raw)

Rooted in Movement. Aspects of Mobility in Bronze Age Europe

2014

The result of the synergy between four doctoral projects and an advanced MA-level course on Bronze Age Europe, this integrated assemblage of articles represents a variety of different subjects united by a single theme: movement. Ranging from theoretical discussion of the various responses to and reactions from the circulation of people, objects and ideas to the transmission of the spiral and the ‚trade’ in crafting expertise, this volume takes a fresh look at old questions. Each article within this monograph represents a different approach to mobility framed within a highly mobile and dynamic period of European prehistory. In so doing, the text not only addresses transmission and reception, but also the conceptualization of mobility within a world which was literally Rooted in Movement.

Theoretical approaches to early medieval migration

1997

This thesis is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the effect upon culture of the movements of people. It is concerned in particular with comparing the ways in which the migrations of the early medieval period in England the `Anglo-Saxon Settlements', the `Viking Settlement' and the `Norman Conquest'have been studied by antiquarians, historians, archaeologists and philologists. The topic is addressed in two ways: by a theoretical discussion of the history and development of thought on early medieval migrations in general, and by detailed case-studies of the ways in which each migration has been approached in a single English region: the county of Yorkshire. The introduction considers the ways in which population movement has been studied by other academic discourses, and demonstrates that consideration of the subject by early medievalists is complicated by the varying, and sometimes conflicting, theoretical standpoints on migration of the three disciplines involved i...