Daneis, Dacorum: re-evaluating the Danish roots of west Hertfordshire
(2023)
Journal Article
Baker, J. (in press). Daneis, Dacorum: re-evaluating the Danish roots of west Hertfordshire. Nomina,
Outputs (14)
The Place-Names of Shropshire. Part 8, Overs Hundred, the Borough of Ludlow, the southern part of Munslow Hundred and the Stowe Division of Purslow Hundred (2020)
Book
Baker, J., & Carroll, J. (2020). The Place-Names of Shropshire. Part 8, Overs Hundred, the Borough of Ludlow, the southern part of Munslow Hundred and the Stowe Division of Purslow Hundred. Nottingham: English Place-Name Societyhis Part covers an area of approximately 140 square miles in the south of the county, between the Franchise of Wenlock and the Hundred of Stottesdon to the east and the Hundred of Clun to the west. The introduction provides an overview of information... Read More about The Place-Names of Shropshire. Part 8, Overs Hundred, the Borough of Ludlow, the southern part of Munslow Hundred and the Stowe Division of Purslow Hundred.
The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names (2020)
Book Chapter
Carroll, J., & Baker, J. (2020). The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names. In L. Alexander James, & L. Ryan (Eds.), Land of the English Kin: Studies of Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England in Honour of Barbara Yorke (112–153). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004421899Bede famously traced the origins of the Anglo-Saxons back to three of the strongest Germanic “tribes”: They came from three very powerful Germanic tribes [de tribus Germaniae populis fortioribus], the Saxons [Saxonibus], Angles [Anglis], and Jute... Read More about The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names.
Meeting in the shadow of heroes? Personal names and assembly places (2019)
Book Chapter
Baker, J. (2019). Meeting in the shadow of heroes? Personal names and assembly places. In Power And Place In Europe In The Early Middle Ages (37-63). Oxford: British Academy
The place-names of Shropshire. Part Seven, Stottesdon Hundred and the Borough of Bridgnorth (2018)
Book
Baker, J., & Beach, S. (2018). The place-names of Shropshire. Part Seven, Stottesdon Hundred and the Borough of Bridgnorth. English Place-Name Society
Gateways, gates and gatu: liminal spaces at the centre of things (2017)
Book Chapter
Baker, J., & Brookes, S. (2017). Gateways, gates and gatu: liminal spaces at the centre of things. In S. Semple, C. Orsini, & S. Mui (Eds.), Life on the edge: social, religious and political frontiers in early medieval Europe. Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum with the Internationales Sachsensymposion
Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names (2017)
Journal Article
Baker, J. (2017). Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names. Early Medieval Europe, 25(4), 417-442. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12226Old English sǣte names survive in documentary sources and place-names, and have been used in historical discourse as evidence for early and middle Anglo-Saxon socio-political organization. Earlier analyses, founded on incomplete datasets, have attemp... Read More about Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names.
Explaining Anglo-Saxon military efficiency: the landscape of mobilization (2016)
Journal Article
Baker, J., & Brookes, S. (in press). Explaining Anglo-Saxon military efficiency: the landscape of mobilization. Anglo-Saxon England, 44, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675100080121
The *meresǣte of northwest Shropshire (2015)
Journal Article
Baker, J. (2015). The *meresǣte of northwest Shropshire. Notes and Queries, 62(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjv068
Identifying outdoor assembly sites in early medieval England (2015)
Journal Article
Baker, J., & Brookes, S. (2015). Identifying outdoor assembly sites in early medieval England. Journal of Field Archaeology, 40(1), https://doi.org/10.1179/0093469014Z.000000000103Venues of outdoor assembly are an important type of archaeological site. Using the example of early medieval (Anglo-Saxon; 5th–11th centuries A.D.) meeting places in England we describe a new multidisciplinary method for identifying and characterizin... Read More about Identifying outdoor assembly sites in early medieval England.