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Power at the Edge: Yeavering, Northumberland, England (2017)
Book Chapter
Semple, S., Buchanan, B., Harrington, S., Oliver, D., & Petts, D. (2017). Power at the Edge: Yeavering, Northumberland, England. In S. Semple, S. Orsini, & S. Mui (Eds.), Life on the Edge: Social, Religious and Political Frontiers in Early Medieval Europe (91-112). Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum with the Internationales Sachsensymposion

Places and spaces: some reflections on reconstructing the spatial organisation of Northumbrian monasteries (2017)
Book Chapter
Petts, D. (2017). Places and spaces: some reflections on reconstructing the spatial organisation of Northumbrian monasteries. In G. Thomas, & A. Knox (Eds.), Early medieval monasticism in the North Sea zone : proceedings of a conference held to celebrate the conclusion of the Lyminge excavations 2008-15 (43-54). Oxford University School of Archaeology

Anglo-Saxon monastic sites were complex places combining religious and economic functions. They were locations where many different communities, secular and ecclesiastical, high and low status, confronted and engaged with each other. They were also c... Read More about Places and spaces: some reflections on reconstructing the spatial organisation of Northumbrian monasteries.