Frisians of the Early Middle Ages: Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Frisians of the Early Middle Ages: An Archaeoethnological Perspective Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm, John Hines and Ian Wood 2. For Daily Use and Special Moments: Material Culture in Frisia, AD 400-1000 Egge Knol 3. The Frisians and their Pottery: Social Relations before and after the Fourth Century AD Annet Nieuwhof 4. Landscape, Trade and Power in Early-medieval Frisia Gilles de Langen and J. A. Mol 5. Law and Political Organisation of the Early Medieval Frisians (c. AD 600-800) Han Nijdam 6. Recent Developments in Early-medieval Settlement Archaeology: The North Frisian Point of View Bente Sven Majchczack 7. Franks and Frisians Ian Wood 8. Mirror Histories: Frisians and Saxons from the First to the Ninth Century AD Robert Flierman 9. Structured by the Sea: Rethinking Maritime Connectivity of the Early-medieval Frisians Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm 10. Art, Symbolism and the Expression of Group Identities in Early-medieval Frisia J. A. W. Nicolay 11. Religion and Conversion amongst the Frisians John Hines 12. Traces of a North Sea Germanic Idiom in the Fifth-Seventh Centuries AD Arjen P. Versloot 13. Runic Literacy in North-West Europe, with a Focus on Frisia Tineke Looijenga Final Discussion List of Contributors