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Gierszewska-Noszczyńska, Matylda, Grimm, Oliver and Grunwald, Lutz (Eds.): Frankish Seats of Power and the North: Centres Between Diplomacy and Confrontation, Transfer of Knowledge and Economy, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2025 (LEIZA Publications, Volume 7). https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1681

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11/17/2025

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Matylda Gierszewska-Noszczyńska (Ed.), Oliver Grimm (Ed.), Lutz Grunwald (Ed.)

Frankish Seats of Power and the North

Centres Between Diplomacy and Confrontation, Transfer of Knowledge and Economy

LEIZA Publications

Seats of power of the Middle Ages were at the centre of diplomatic exchange and confrontation, shaped the transfer of knowledge, and acted as control centres of the economy. This was the case in Aachen and Ingelheim, which represent the Frankish Empire, but also in Hedeby, most prominently for Northern Europe. The contributions in this publication bring together seats of power and finds from the Frankish Empire and the North in the period from the Late Antiquity (4th/5th century) to the High Middle Ages (10th to 12th centuries), and they come to new and sometimes surprising results. This book is based on a conference that took place in Aachen from the 8th to 11th of November 2022. 

Matylda Gierszewska-Noszczyńska, M. A. and M. Sc. (GIS), from the Kaiserpfalz Research Centre in Ingelheim (Forschungsstelle Kaiserpfalz), as an archaeologist focuses on settlement topography and its changes, particularly in the Early and High Middle Ages, as well as on material research with an emphasis on ceramic analysis. Her research also concentrates on Geographic Information Systems and their application in archaeology.

Dr. Oliver Grimm from the Leibniz-Centre for Archaeology (location: Schleswig) has an interest in Northern European seats of power in the Iron Age and medieval times. Since many years, however, he conducts Human-Animal Studies. 

Dr. Lutz Grunwald from the Leibniz Centre for Archaeology (Mayen site) is particularly intensively researching questions relating to the ceramics industry of late antiquity and early medieval times, as well as settlements and burial grounds from these periods. Early European economic contacts and long-distance relationships of all kinds in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages are another research focus.

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Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
5-6
Matylda Gierszewska-Noszczyńska, Lutz Grunwald, Oliver Grimm
Foreword by the Editors
7-8
Matylda Gierszewska-Noszczyńska, Lutz Grunwald, Oliver Grimm
Frankish Seats of Power and the North
Introduction, Discussion and Synthesis
9-24
Anne Pedersen
Power Made Visual in Viking-Age Denmark
Means and Messages
27-47
Thorsten Lemm
A Landscape of Royal Power on the Schlei
The Danevirke, Hedeby and Slesvig in a Diachronic Perspective
49-91
Oliver Grimm
Starigard/Oldenburg in the West-Slavic Area and Tissø, Avaldsnes and Borg in Northern Europe in AD 700–1050
Imitatio Imperii of Royal Frankish/Post-Frankish Architecture of Power or Domestic Development?
93-113
John Hines
Seats of the Powerful in Britain after the Short 5th Century
A Chronological and Geo-Political Pattern. With a Postscript on Sites of the 9th to 12th Centuries
115-140
Simon Coupland
Carolingian Frisia and the Vikings
Confrontation and Cohabitation
141-149
Frans Theuws, Arjan den Braven
How did Aristocrats Live in Merovingian and (Early) Carolingian Times in Northern Gaul?
An Archaeological Enigma. With some Remarks on the Royal Seat in Nijmegen
153-182
Michel Groothedde
Carolingian Zutphen in pago Hamelant
183-204
Simon Coupland
Dorestad and the North
Frankish Connections to Scandinavia
205-216
Thomas Höltken
Colnaburch/Cologne, the Medieval Centre of Power and Economy and its Contacts with the North
219-236
Christoph Keller
Trade Goods or Trader’s Household?
The Distribution of Carolingian Pottery from the Rhineland in Northern Europe
237-249
Frank Pohle
The Palace in Mind
Charlemagne’s Palace at Aachen: Imagination and Reality
251-267
Judith Ley, Andreas Schaub
The Palace of Aachen
Settlement and Architectural History
269-279
Harald Müller
Rise and Fall of a Royal Palace
Aachen in Carolingian Times
281-289
Patrick Kremser
Aquisgrani Revisited
Some Remarks on the Medieval (Re-)Construction of Aachen’s Roman Past
291-297
Ferdinand Heimerl
Faded Splendour
The Development of the Late Roman Residence Trier at the Transition to the Early Middle Ages
301-315
Lukas Clemens
Trier and Frisian Trade in the Early Middle Ages
317-328
Lutz Grunwald
Early Medieval Finds as Evidence of Individual Long-Distance Contacts, Acts of War and Economic Relations with the North
The Middle Rhine and Lower Moselle Region
329-351
Matylda Gierszewska-Noszczyńska, Ramona Kaiser
Economy, Trade and Politics
Evidence of Long-Distance Contacts with the North Based on Archaeological and Historical Sources for Ingelheim
355-371
Holger Grewe
The Rhine-Main Area as a Contact Zone with the North
The Royal Palace of Ingelheim AD 826 as an Example
373-386
Caspar Ehlers
The Frankfurt Girl’s Grave
A Search for Traces of the Contacts with the North
387-414
Susanne Reichert
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Capitals
Carolingian Aachen and Mongol Period Karakorum
417-439

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