Table of Contents

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

About the Author

JOHN HINES is Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University. NELLEKE IJSSENNAGGER-VAN DER PLUIJM is Director of the Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden. JOHN HINES is Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University. NELLEKE IJSSENNAGGER-VAN DER PLUIJM is Director of the Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden.

Reviews

Frisians of the Early Middle Ages is certainly worth purchasing. A nice 'extra' are the transcripts of the discussions at the symposium, which sometimes are as insightful as the chapters themselves. In essence, it is an excellent volume to dip in and out of.
*ANTIQUITY*

This handsome tome does much to underscore the dynamic and adaptive nature of this extensive coastal territory and its resident peoples during the early medieval period. It should be considered one of the most-if not the most-significant collection of scholarship on the early medieval Frisians to emerge in many a year. Its meticulous but approachable nature has much to offer both seasoned scholars and newcomers alike.
*SPECULUM*

Interesting and well informed.
*CANADIAN JOURNAL OF NETHERLANDIC STUDIES*

[S]plendid book.
*MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY*