Ebook: From Central Space to Urban Place, Seminar 1: Social Organisation of Land in South Scandinavia, AD 400–1100. Methods, Challenges and Possibilities

Report from an international seminar in Odense, 24th May 2018.

The seminar "Social organisation of land in South Scandinavia AD 400-1100. Methods, challenges and possibilities" was the first of two international seminars associated with the project "From central space
to urban place" which is being undertaken from 2017-2020 and is funded by the Velux Foundation.

The aim of the project is to shed new light on the earliest urbanisation processes in South Scandinavia within a chronological frame of AD 400-1100. The means, using Odense and Aalborg as case studies, is an exploration of the development from the central spaces of the Late Iron Age, defined as concentrations of archaeological localities characterised by wealth and functions such as trade, crafts, cult and defence, to the urban places of the Middle Ages, where the structures of power are concentrated in one location.