Medieval Archaeology: Papers of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)

The diversity of topics investigated in this volume is a reflection of the range of subject matter, perspectives, and geographic foci that typifies the recently revitalized field of medieval archaeology. At this point in the growth of the field, I believe it is more important to provide the reader with examples of this diversity, than to limit the chapters to a single theme. Because of that decision this volume attempts to stimulate interest and indicate potentially profitable directions of study, rather than to answer a specific set of questions about the past. Preface / Charles L. Redman, Arizona State University vii Section I: Society and Economy Archaeology and the Pirenne Thesis / David Whitehouse, Corning Museum of Glass 3 Viking Raiders: The Transformation of Scandinavian Society / Klavs Randsborg, University of Copenhagen 23 The Vikings Versus the Towns of Northern Gaul: Challenge and Response / Michel Rouche, University of Lille III 41 Emporia, Monasteries and the Economic Foundation of Medieval Europe / Richard Hodges, University of Sheffield 57 Section II: Materials of the Archaeological Record Ceramic Technologies of Medieval Northern Morocco / Emlen Myers, Smithsonian Institution 75 Diversity in Ceramic Production: A Case Study from Medieval North Africa / Nancy Benco, SUNY-Binghamton 97 Numismatics and Medieval Archaeology / Alan M. Stahl, American Numismatic Society 119 Novgorod Birchbark Documents: The Evidence for Literacy in Medieval Russia / Eve Levin, Ohio State University 127 Underwater Archaeology and Medieval Mediterranean Ships / George F. Bass, Texas A&M University 139 "Beowulf" and the Language of Hoarding / Robert Payson Creed, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 155 Section III: Rural Community Studies The Role of Cemeteries in the Formation of Medieval Settlement: Patterns in Western France / Elizabeth Zadora-Rio, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 171 Hillfort Reuse in Gloucestershire, A.D. 1-700 / Janice B. Klein, University of Pennsylvania 187 Zooarchaeology at Early Anglo-Saxon West Stow / Pam Jean Crabtree, University of Pennsylvania 203 Historical Archaeology of Medieval Muslim Communities in the Sierra of Eastern Spain / Karl W. Butzer and Elisabeth K. Butzer, University of Texas, Austin 217 Section IV: Urban Community Studies Urban Archaeology in Douai (Nord, France) / Pierre Demolon, Service Archaeologique du Muses de Douai 237 Early Medieval Florence: Between History and Archaeology / Franklin K. Toker, University of Pittsburgh 261 Rewriting an Urban Text: The Ottomanization of Cretan Cities / Donald Preziosi, University of California, Los Angeles 285