Conference Presentations by John Hines
by Edith Peytremann, Claudia Theune, Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo, Mark Gardiner, Tibor Ákos Rácz, John Hines, Miklós Takács, Ingvild Øye, Paolo de Vingo, Heiko Steuer, Rainer Schreg, and Terence Barry As President of the RURALIA assossiation I like to present the Program, Abstract Book and Excursi... more As President of the RURALIA assossiation I like to present the Program, Abstract Book and Excursion Guide. For further information and the published conference papers see: ruralia.cz
Papers by John Hines
Making Places, Making Lives: Landscape and Settlement in Coastal Wetlands. Neue Studien zur Sachsenforschung 14 , 2024
This article explores the evidence for how the eastern English Fenland, then an extensive, thinly... more This article explores the evidence for how the eastern English Fenland, then an extensive, thinly-populated wetland, nevertheless functioned as a particularly important contact zone for Early Anglo-Saxon communities settled around its edges. The principal case study used is the recently published group of burial grounds at RAF Lakenheath, Eriswell, Suffolk, and their artefactual evidence.
James Lang, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, 6: Northern Yorkshire. With contributions by Derek Craig, Rosemary Cramp, Louise Henderson, John Higgitt, D. N. Parsons, and John R. Senior. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, for the British Academy, 2001. Pp. xvi, 540; black-and-whit... Speculum, 2004
New Narratives for the First Millennium AD? Alte und neue Perspektiven der archäologischen Forschung zum 1. Jahrtausend n. Chr., 2023
An account of the events that saw the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists become the Interna... more An account of the events that saw the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists become the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England in 2019, and reflections on the lessons to be learnt from that, based on reports requested by the Internationales Sachsensymposion.
Journal of British Studies
Frisians and their North Sea Neighbours
A review of the range of evidence for a very close relationship between England and Frisia in the... more A review of the range of evidence for a very close relationship between England and Frisia in the Early Middle Ages (5th to 9th centuries AD) and the conceptual problems it poses.
The Antiquaries Journal, 2021
Between 1998 and 2008, 450 inhumation burials of the fifth to eighth centuries ad were excavated ... more Between 1998 and 2008, 450 inhumation burials of the fifth to eighth centuries ad were excavated in four separate but adjacent burial grounds within RAF Lakenheath airbase in Suffolk. Study of the evidence has been based on the typology of the national chronological framework of sixth- and seventh-century graves and grave goods published in 2013, and correlated also with a related East Anglian regional scheme. Fifty high-precision radiocarbon dates allow for thorough evaluation of the scope for applying the phase-structure and estimated date-boundaries of the national framework to this one large site. The results can be held to reproduce the core sequence of the national framework, albeit with necessary modifications that provide greater insights into the processes used to generate models of the data, besides significant modifications to the perceived date-ranges of certain artefact-types. The results have also been markedly influenced (and apparently improved) by a new standard cal...
A Handbook to Eddic Poetry
The Medieval Review, 2003
European Journal of Archaeology, 2015
Tracing Old Norse Cosmography is the sixteenth volume published in fourteen years out of the Vaga... more Tracing Old Norse Cosmography is the sixteenth volume published in fourteen years out of the Vagar till Midgard interdisciplinary research project funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundati...
Medieval Archaeology, 2014
Abstract THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES the recent discovery of Britain’s first certain hoard of gold bra... more Abstract THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES the recent discovery of Britain’s first certain hoard of gold bracteates, found in a field in Binham (Norfolk). This find is unique in Anglo-Saxon England where bracteates have previously been found either in graves or as single finds. A further two gold bracteates and a possible die have been discovered in the vicinity of Binham suggesting a ‘bracteate cluster’. It is argued here on the basis of analogies with sites in Scandinavia and northern Germany that Binham may have acted as a central place in northern Norfolk in the early Anglo-Saxon period. In light of bracteate distribution across Anglo-Saxon England, the area of Binham is suggested as one of several sites with meaningful clusters of bracteate finds; these may have belonged to a network of central sites distributed across Scandinavia and along North Sea coastal areas in England. Abstract Le trésor de bractéates de Binham — un lieu central du début de la période anglo-saxonne? par Charlotte Behr et Tim Pestell, avec la contribution de John Hines Cet article retrace la découverte récente en Grande-Bretagne du premier trésor indéniable de bractéates en or, qu’on a retrouvé dans un champ à Binham (Norfolk). Cette trouvaille est unique en son genre pour l’Angleterre anglo-saxonne, car les bractéates trouvés jusque-là étaient soit dans des sépultures, soit isolés. Deux autres bractéates en or et un potentiel poinçon ont été découverts dans les environs de Binham, suggérant ainsi un “regroupement de bractéates”. Sur la base d’analogies avec d’autres sites de Scandinavie et d’Allemagne du Nord, on fait valoir ici que Binham aurait pu occuper une position centrale dans le nord du Norfolk au début de la période anglo-saxonne. Vu la répartition des bractéates dans l’Angleterre anglo-saxonne, nous suggérons que la région de Binham pourrait être l’un des sites renfermant des regroupements significatifs de bractéates mis à jour ; ils auraient pu faire partie d’un réseau de sites centraux répartis à travers la Scandinavie et le long des zones littorales de la mer du Nord en Angleterre. Abstract Der Brakteatenhort von Binham — ein Zentralort in der frühen angelsächsischen Zeit? von Charlotte Behr und Tim Pestell, mit einem Beitrag von John Hines Dieser Artikel beschreibt die jüngst erfolgte Entdeckung des ersten gesicherten Hortes von Goldbrakteaten in Großbritannien, der in einem Feld in Binham (Norfolk) gefunden wurde. Dieser Fund ist einzigartig für das angelsächsische England, wo man Brakteaten zuvor nur entweder in Gräbern oder als Einzelfunde entdeckt hat. Zwei weitere Goldbrakteaten und ein möglicher Prägestempel wurden in der Nähe von Binham entdeckt, was auf ein “Brakteaten-Cluster” schließen lässt. Hier wird auf der Basis von Analogien mit Fundstätten in Skandinavien und Norddeutschland argumentiert, dass Binham möglicherweise in der frühen angelsächsischen Periode ein zentraler Ort in Nord-Norfolk war. Angesichts der Verteilung von Brakteaten im angelsächsischen England wird vorgeschlagen, dass Binham einer von mehreren zentralen Orten mit bedeutungsvollen Clustern von Brakteatenfunden ist; diese könnten zu einem Netzwerk zentraler Orte gehört haben, die über Skandinavien und entlang der englischen Nordseeküste verteilt waren. Abstract Il tesoro di bratteati di Binham: un centro del primo periodo anglosassone? di Charlotte Behr eTim Pestell, con un contributo di John Hines Questo articolo descrive la recente scoperta del primo tesoro certo di bratteati d’oro in Gran Bretagna, rinvenuto in un campo a Binham nel Norfolk. Questo ritrovamento è unico nell’Inghilterra anglosassone, poiché i bratteati rinvenuti in precedenza provenivano da tombe oppure si trattava di ritrovamenti isolati. Nelle vicinanze di Binham sono stati scoperti altri due bratteati d’oro e una possibile matrice, il che fa pensare a un ‘agglomerato di bratteati’. In base ad analogie con siti della Scandinavia e della Germania settentrionale, si sostiene che nel periodo anglosassone più antico Binham possa avere avuto un ruolo centrale nel Norfolk settentrionale. Tenuto conto della distribuzione dei bratteati in tutta l’Inghilterra anglosassone, l’area di Binham viene indicata come una delle varie località in cui ci sono stati significativi ritrovamenti di ‘agglomerati di bratteati’. Si avanza l’ipotesi che queste località facessero parte di una rete di siti centrali sparsi in tutta la Scandinavia e lungo le zone costiere del Mare del Nord in Inghilterra.
Folklore, 2014
Back in 1995, Daniel Woolf observed that 'the global dominance of Western academic historical pra... more Back in 1995, Daniel Woolf observed that 'the global dominance of Western academic historical practices' has led to a sense, particularly beyond the west, that 'not just history, but historiography. .. has been written by the victors' (D. Woolf, 'Historiography,' New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed. M. C. Horowitz (New York, 2005), p. 1). Past dominance can't be rectified even by heroic labour, but the record can be set straight. Nearly twenty years later, as general editor of the five-volume Oxford History of Historical Writing, Woolf has facilitated the critical surveys of materials that readers need to consider the circumstances that have shaped historical thought and practice on a truly global scale. Compiled by an international team of some 150 contributors, this series has already begun to stimulate new research and innovative teaching within and beyond the west, addressing if not correcting, any worries over the intellectual and cultural range of historical practice beyond Europe. Of course any claim to a definitive History seems to presume the timeless authority that authors in this series seek to question. Nevertheless, its broad geographical, chronological and thematic range will encourage a comparative approach to historical thought and practice that can only enrich the many fields that draw on historical writing. Although the chapters in this particular volume focus on the writing of history during a period that witnessed the spread of printing and literacy, many contributors consider textuality with reference to oral, visual and material expression-and to their associated social values. It is a relief to know that the final volume in this series considers the methodological problems that this broad sweep entails. If historians have grown increasingly self-conscious about how we ought to think, teach and write about the past, to say nothing of what we assume of the past of people and places beyond our immediate experience, this volume provides a reassuring resource. The editors have organized this volume geographically, 'by following the sun' as well as by following the invention of written historical records; the chapters (numbering over thirty-three) start with 'Chinese official historical writing under the Ming and Qing' before reaching 'Historical writing in colonial and revolutionary America'. Peter Burke's chapter on the emergence of critical standards for confirming historical bs_bs_banner
The English Historical Review, 2009
Medieval Archaeology, 2013
Abstract THE AMBITIOUS AND WIDE-RANGING project launched by the late Karl Hauck with the monograp... more Abstract THE AMBITIOUS AND WIDE-RANGING project launched by the late Karl Hauck with the monograph study Goldbrakteaten aus Sievern in 1970 reached a conclusion, although not closure, with the publication of a massive volume of interpretation and evaluation in 2011. This review article seeks not only to review that publication at an appropriate scale, but also to provide a general reflection upon Karl Hauck’s scholarly legacy of practical value to an Anglophone readership.
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