Daneis, Dacorum: re-evaluating the Danish roots of west Hertfordshire
(2023)
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Baker, J. (in press). Daneis, Dacorum: re-evaluating the Danish roots of west Hertfordshire. Nomina,
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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)
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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.
Old English sǣta and sǣtan names (2015)
Journal Article
Baker, J. (2015). Old English sǣta and sǣtan names
Outside the gate: sub-urban legal practices in early medieval England (2013)
Journal Article
Baker, J., & Brookes, S. (2013). Outside the gate: sub-urban legal practices in early medieval England. World Archaeology, 45(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2013.865330Many aspects of English early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) legal landscapes can be discerned in archaeological and toponymic evidence, ranging from the locations of legislative councils and judicial assemblies to sites of capital punishment. Among the corp... Read More about Outside the gate: sub-urban legal practices in early medieval England.
Fulham 878–79: a new consideration of Viking manoeuvres (2012)
Journal Article
Baker, J., & Brookes, S. (2012). Fulham 878–79: a new consideration of Viking manoeuvres. Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, 8, https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.1.103193This paper uses evidence from a variety of disciplines in order to re-evaluate an apparently enigmatic event reported in several early sources – the landing of a Viking force at Fulham in 878. It examines the vocabulary of written accounts of their a... Read More about Fulham 878–79: a new consideration of Viking manoeuvres.