Part I. Context: 1. Introduction 2. The social fabric of Northwest Europe, AD 600-1150: paradigms and perspectives Part II. The Age of the Carolingians, c. AD 600-900: 3. Small farming communities of West Francia, AD 600-900 4. Larger farming communities, specialist producers and collectors in West Francia, AD 600-900 5. Farming communities of Anglo-Saxon England and the Atlantic fringes, AD 600-900 6. Expressions of leadership and models for emulation, AD 500-900 7. Conspicuous consumption and secular authority in the landscape, AD 650-900 8. Diocesan towns, AD 600-900 9. Ports and maritime-oriented societies, AD 600-900 Part III. From the Viking Age to Angevin Hegemony: 10. Transformations in architectures and settings of public power, AD 900-1150 11. The rural world, AD 900-1150: lifestyles of old and new aristocracies 12. The rural world, AD 900-1150: social mobility, landscape reorganisation and colonization 13. Major ports and merchant patricians as catalysts for social change, AD 900-1100 14. Towns as regional centres and urban diversity, AD 900-1150 15. Final conclusions.
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