Ellora Bennett - Early medieval militarisation

Early medieval militarisation

Early medieval militarisation

Edited by Ellora Bennett, Guido M. Berndt, Stefan Esders and Laury Sarti

Manchester University Press

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Ellora Bennett, DPhil Candidate at the Freie Universitt Berlin

Guido M. Berndt, Research Fellow at the Freie Universitt Berlin

Luc Bourgeois, Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the Universit de Caen Basse-Normandie, Centre Michel de Board Centre de recherches archologiques et historiques anciennes et mdivales

Susanne Brather-Walter, Research Fellow at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitt Freiburg

Simon Coupland, Affiliated Scholar at the MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge

Stefan Esders, Professor of Late Antique and Early Medieval History at the Freie Universitt Berlin

Stefano Gasparri, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the Universit Ca Foscari Venezia

Hans-Werner Goetz, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Hamburg

Kai Grundmann, Independent Scholar, Berlin

Guy Halsall, Honorary Professor in the Department of Archaeology at Durham University

Benjamin Hamm, PhD Candidate at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitt Freiburg

Uta Heil, Professor of Church History at the University of Vienna

Edward James, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University College Dublin

Ryan Lavelle, Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Winchester

Pablo Poveda Arias, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Universitt Hamburg

Philip Rance, Research Associate at the Freie Universitt Berlin

Laury Sarti, Lecturer at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitt Freiburg

Michel Summer, PhD Candidate at Trinity College Dublin

Conor Whately, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg

Thomas Wittkamp, PhD Candidate at the Carl-von-Ossietzky Universitt Oldenburg

The present volume assembles a selection of studies, the majority of which emerged from three different gatherings organised within the framework of a project funded by the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation and located at the Freie Universitt Berlin, which was directed by Laury Sarti and Stefan Esders. The aim of the project was to study The militarisation of early medieval societies by analysing its Nature, control and perception in a west-European comparison (January 2016June 2020). It was conducted in cooperation with Ryan Lavelle from the University of Winchester and Philipp von Rummel from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). A workshop on Military organisation and society in the post-Roman world (August 2016) and a conference entitled Reflections of a militarised world? Perceptions and conceptions of war and the military in the early Middle Ages (c. 5001000) (September 2017) were both held at the Freie Universitt Berlin, while a third gathering on Early medieval militarisation. An archaeological perspective (November 2019) took place at the University of Freiburg (im-Breisgau). It was organised in cooperation with the Institute for the Archaeology of the Middle Ages at the University of Freiburg. We would like to thank Anna Gehler-Rachnek, Maria-Elena Kammerlander, Jean-Michel Klopp, Pia Lucas and Alexander Schie for their assistance throughout these meetings. In addition, one series of sessions was organised within the framework of the Leeds International Medieval Congress 2017 entitled The other look at early medieval societies the phenomenon of militarisation, followed in 2018 by a Round Table discussion on The militarisation of early medieval societies. We would like to thank all the speakers and attendants of these gatherings for their contributions to the subject. In addition, we would like to thank Meredith Carroll from Manchester University Press for bringing this volume to press and the external reviewers for their many useful suggestions for improvement.

Ellora Bennett, Guido M. Berndt, Stefan Esders and Laury Sarti