![]() Early Medieval Europe published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA. Semple's work has provided a foundation for much of my thinking on monument reuse, and I hope that she will not find too much here with which to disagree.Įarly Medieval Europe 2015 23 (3) 329-359 96-9), and discusses several related issues in great depth and with great clarity. Semple refers to the key sites discussed in this paper and other battlefields of the period 450-850 (pp. 26), was published shortly before this paper was submitted for publication and is consequently referenced more lightly than might otherwise seem apt. Sarah Semple's monograph, Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England (n. My father, Geoffrey Williams, read and commented on drafts of this paper and his support has been fundamental. * Several people and organizations have contributed to the preparation of this paper and the research from which it derives: University College London and the Arts and Humanities Research Council have made the research possible Andrew Reynolds, Stuart Brookes, John Baker, Howard Williams and Sarah Semple have generously shared ideas and unpublished work the anonymous reviewers suggested a number of improvements. The holistic understanding of early medieval battlefield landscapes in England remains limited and only a handful of key publications have Searching for early medieval battlefields in England In the course of the discussion, this paper seeks to demonstrate the value of applying a similar approach to the full range of evidence for conflict landscapes in early medieval England and beyond. The events of 1006 and the landscape of the upper Kennet are introduced as a case study that reveals the complex interplay of royal ideology, superstition and place that were invoked in the practice of violence in late Anglo-Saxon England. The hypothesis is advanced that certain types of place were considered particularly appropriate for the performance of violent conflict throughout the period and that the social ideas that determined the choice of locale are, to some degree, recoverable through in-depth, interdisciplinary analysis of landscapes, place names and texts. This paper outlines the state of research into early medieval conflict landscapes in England and sets out a theoretical and methodological basisfor the sustained and systematic investigation of battlefield toponymy and topography. Landscape and warfare in Anglo-Saxon England and the Viking campaign of 1006
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