scholarly journals THE POSSIBILITY OF SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF TOSA PORT IN THE MIDDLE AGES VIEWED FROM DUG STANDING PILLAR BUILDINGS

2005 ◽  
Vol 70 (592) ◽  
pp. 201-207
Author(s):  
Hayato NAKAMURA ◽  
Seiyu TAKASHIMA
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Middle Ages

scholarly journals Marginal Life: Experiencing a Medieval Landscape in the Periphery

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-113
Author(s):  
Karin Altenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Landscape Archaeology ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Prehistoric Archaeology ◽  
Landscape Studies ◽  
South West ◽  
The Middle Ages

Medieval landscape archaeology has mainly focused on the function and management of medieval settlements and their immediate surroundings. While theories concerning the experience of the cultural landscape, regional identity and social structure have proved fruitful in other disciplines such as prehistoric archaeology and human geography, medievalists have disregarded the possibilities of phenomenology for landscape studies. The wealth of materiel available to medieval landscape studies ought to be fully exploited in the development of theories concerning the experience of the landscape during the Middle Ages. Evidence from Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor in south-west Britain is re-examined in order to discuss the ways in which the landscape was perceived by those who lived and worked on the moors and by those who had an interest in the moors from further afield.

scholarly journals Between Sea and Land: Geographical and Literary Marginality in the Conversion of Medieval Frisia

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 580
Author(s):  
Carole M. Cusack
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Territorial Expansion ◽  
Political Status ◽  
The Middle Ages

Ancient and medieval Frisia was an ethno-linguistic entity far larger than the modern province of Friesland, Netherlands. Water outweighed land over its geographical extent, and its marginal political status, unconquered by the Romans and without the feudal social structure typical of the Middle Ages, made Frisia independent and strange to its would-be conquerors. This article opens with Frisia’s encounters with Rome, and its portrayal in Latin texts as a wretched land of water-logged beggars, ultimately unworthy of annexation. Next, the early medieval conflict between the Frisians and the Danes/Geats, featured in Beowulf and other epic fragments, is examined. Pagan Frisia became of interest during Frankish territorial expansion via a combination of missionary activity and warfare from the seventh century onward. The vitae of saints Willibrord, Boniface, Liudger and Wulfram provide insights into the conversion of Frisia, and the resistance to Christianity and Frankish overlordship of Radbod, its last Pagan king. It is contended that the watery terrain and distinctive culture of Frisia (pastoralism, seafaring, Pagan religion) as noted in ancient and medieval texts rendered it “other” to politically centralized entities such as Rome and Francia. Frisia was eventually tamed and integrated through conversion to Christianity and absorption into Francia after the death of Radbod.

Kindred and Clan in the Middle Ages and After

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bertha Surtees Phillpotts
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Middle Ages
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