The Danelaw Reconsidered
Colonization and Conflict in Viking-Age England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21802575 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ben Raffield (0000-0002-5753-4535, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Pages | 181-220 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Viking and Medieval Scandinavia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1782-7183 • E-ISSN: 2030-9902 |
| Publisher | Brepols Publishers NV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1484/j.vms.5.121523 |
| OpenAlex | W3117655109 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 43 |
The purpose of this study is to address long-standing interpretative frameworks for the discussion of the ‘Danelaw’, a term that has been applied since the medieval period to a large area of eastern and northern England that was occupied by viking raiding groups and other immigrant settlers during the ninth and tenth centuries ad. The article highlights several potential issues concerning widely held perceptions of the Danelaw and its main subsidiary element — the ‘Five Boroughs’ — as geopolitical and cultural entities. On the basis of a lack of historical and archaeological evidence for coordinated territorial defence and cooperation between the groups occupying the landscape, the study calls the concepts of the Danelaw and Five Boroughs into question. I argue that a shift in scholarly focus to more local and regional processes of consolidation and social development would provide fresh insights into political and military organization in Viking-Age England, while also shedding light on processes of violence, colonization, and creolization as these played out across the settled landscape
Archaeology · Colonization · Consolidation (business) · Ethnology · Geography · Geopolitics · Immigration · New england · Ninth · Political science · Politics · Viking Age · Historical and Archaeological Studies · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History
Cultures in Contact
Ship-Men and Slaughter-Wolves
Maritime Societies of the Viking and Medieval World
The Beginning of Scandinavian Settlement in England
No Pots Please, We’re Vikings
Viking Identities
The Viking Diaspora
Beyond the Burghal Hidage
Culture and Gender in the Danelaw
Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England
An Early Medieval Polychrome-Enamelled Brooch from Flaxengate, Lincoln
The Five Boroughs of the Danelaw
Viking and native
The growth of an urban landscape
Bands of brothers
The territorial and strategic context of Stamford, Lincolnshire, in the early tenth century
From ‘palace’ to ‘town’
Palaces or minsters? Northampton and Cheddar reconsidered
Medieval Britain and Ireland in 1983
Medieval Britain in 1972
The Scale and Impact of Viking Settlement in Northumbria
Medieval Britain in 1971
Pottery Production in Anglo-Scandinavian Torksey (Lincolnshire)
Monetary Practices in Early Medieval Western Scandinavia (5th–10th Centuries ad )
Scandinavian Settlement in England
Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society
The slave markets of the Viking world
The Winter Camp of the Viking Great Army, Ad 872–3, Torksey, Lincolnshire
An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon England
Ingroup identification, identity fusion and the formation of Viking war bands
Market and fortress in England in the reign of Offa
The 'People of the British Isles' project and Viking settlement in England
An early medieval dual-currency economy
Repton and the Vikings
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |