Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	1702
Title	'Defended Communities': Fortified Settlements of the 8th-10th Centuries - Origins, Forms, and Functions, III
Date/Time	Thursday 4 July 2013: 14.15-15.45
Sponsor	School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester / Vienna Institute of Archaeological Science, Universität Wien
Organiser	Neil Christie, School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester
	Hajnalka Herold, Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter
Moderator/Chair	Hajnalka Herold, Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter
Paper 1702-a	Early Medieval 'Incastellamento' in the North of Iberia (Language: English) Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo, Facultad de Letras, Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Vitoria-Gasteiz Index Terms: Archaeology - General; Archaeology - Sites
Paper 1702-b	Rural Landscape of Sicily between Byzantines and Muslims (Language: English) Alessandra Molinari, Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione, Studi Umanistici e Internazionali (DISCUI), Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo Index Terms: Archaeology - General; Archaeology - Sites
Paper 1702-c	Creating Defended Communities in Later Saxon Wessex (Language: English) Neil Christie, School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester Index Terms: Archaeology - General; Archaeology - Sites
Abstract	The three sessions 'Defended Communities': Fortified Settlements of the 8th-10th Centuries: Origins, Forms, and Functions, I-III aim at comparing the archaeology of fortified settlements across Europe, beyond the scope of regions that are usually compared and studied together. By analysing the origins, forms and functions of these settlements, similarities and differences will be discussed in the development of European regions in the late phase of the early Middle Ages.