Practice, Power and Place: Southern British Perspectives on the Agency of Early Medieval Rulers' Residences
Practice, Power and Place: Southern British Perspectives on the Agency of Early Medieval Rulers' Residences
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实践、权力和场所：英国南部对中世纪早期统治者官邸机构的看法
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10.1080/00293652.2021.1910337
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发表时间：
2021
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0.6
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Thomas G
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作者：
Thomas G
本文提出了对公元5世纪至9世纪统治权的理解，借鉴了英国南部被称为大厅建筑群的精英定居点。在一个基于实践的概念框架的指导下，我们将这些地点与中世纪早期世界中构成统治的具体制度，仪式，习惯和活动联系起来。利用最近扩展的数据集，我们在三个关键领域产生见解。首先，通过记录在大厅遗址证明的重要和持续的先行占领，我们揭示了统治者如何利用这些地方的复杂的多个过去，以推进象征性和世俗的议程。第二，我们重新理解大厅建设作为精英合法化的战略，通过关注创造这些创新建筑陈述的熟练从业者的代理，并在这样做的过程中，认识到这些迄今被忽视的专家作为统治者的“统治者”。第三，我们使用代理人从最近调查的大会堂复合体，以重建网络的依赖和相互作用，使这些中心。最后，对英国南部和斯堪的纳维亚半岛进行了比较讨论，对统治者的住宅作为中世纪早期主权的协调和创造性更新的主要竞技场提供了共同的观点。
This paper advances understanding of rulership over the fifth to the ninth centuries AD, drawing upon a category of elite settlement from southern Britain known as the great hall complex. Guided by a practice-based conceptual framework, we connect these sites with the embodied regimens, rituals, habits, and activities through which rulership was constituted in the early medieval world. Harnessing recent expanded datasets, we generate insights in three key areas. First, by documenting the significant and sustained antecedent occupation attested at great hall sites, we reveal how rulers exploited the complex multiple pasts of these places to advance symbolic and worldly agendas. Second, we reframe understanding of hall construction as a strategy of elite legitimation by focusing attention on the agency of the skilled practitioners who created these innovative architectural statements and, in doing so, recognize these hitherto neglected specialists as ‘crafters’ of rulership. Third, we use proxies from recently investigated great hall complexes to reconstruct the networks of dependency and interaction which enmeshed these centres. A concluding comparative discussion of southern Britain and Scandinavia contributes shared perspectives on rulers’ residences as a prime arena for the orchestration and creative renewal of early medieval sovereignty.