Sam Turner’s seminar in Paris was titled ‘The seventh-century monasteries of Wearmouth-Jarrow and the bones of the Northumbrian landscape‘. Based on a forthcoming paper co-authored with Chris Fowler, the talk argued that the examination of certain ‘technologies’ can help explain more specifically what changed, why it changed and how change was effected during the period of the conversion to Christianity in the early Middle Ages. The talk focussed specifically on technologies witnessed at Wearmouth and Jarrow and in other Northumbrian sources, such as the parcelling of land and the use of writing, building in stone, the use of relics and sainthood, and changing locations and forms of burial. 

 

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