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Dorestad was the largest town of the Low Countries in the Carolingian era. As a riverine emporium on the northern edge of the Frankish Empire, it functioned as a European junction, connecting the Viking world with the Continent. In 2019, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden hosted its quinquennial international congress based around Dorestad, located at present-day Wijk bij Duurstede. This third edition, 'Dorestad and its Networks', coincided with the fiftieth birthday of finding the famous Dorestad brooch in July 1969, and with what would have been the hundredth birthday of prof.dr. Ina Isings, to whom a special session on early-medieval glass was dedicated.The Third Dorestad Congress brought together scholars from the North Sea area to debate Dorestad and its counterparts in Scandinavia, the British Isles and the Rhineland, as well as the material culture, urbanisation and infrastructure of the Early Middle Ages. The contributions in these proceedings are devoted to new research into the Vikings at Dorestad, assemblages of jewellery, playing pieces and weaponry from the town, recent excavations at other Carolingian sites in the Low Countries, and the use and trade of glassware and broadswords in this era. They show the political, economic and cultural networks of Dorestad, the only town to be called 'vicus famosus' in contemporary sources.

Antiquities. --- Dorestad (Extinct city). --- Excavations (Archaeology). --- Antiquities --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Dorestad (Extinct city)

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Boniface, --- Dorestad (Extinct city) --- Bonifatius ep. Moguntinus m. --- Boniface, - Saint, Archbishop of Mainz, - ca. 675-754

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Dorestad is a large, wealthy and internationally orientated harbour town from the Carolingian era excavated at the site of Wijk bij Duurstede in the middle of the Netherlands. In the 8th and 9th century AD it functioned as a junction in a network of Carolingian emporia or vici that covered most of present-day Europe. The past decade featured new research into the relations between these towns, their environmental and cultural context, the exchange of goods, coins and ideas, and the role of emperors and Vikings in their rise and fall. This publication contains the results of a scholarly congress in Leiden in June 2009, where renowned historians and archaeologists from eight countries presented studies into the Carolingian emporia, their material culture and their position in early medieval Europe, composed around Dorestad, the only emporium called ‘vicus famosus’ in contemporary sources.

glassware --- trade [function] --- coins [money] --- textile weaving processes and techniques --- Archeology --- anno 700-799 --- anno 800-899 --- Wijk bij Duurstede --- 902 <492 DORESTAD> --- 737 <09> "04/14" --- 737 <09> "04/14" Numismatiek. Muntkunde--Geschiedenis van ...--Middeleeuwen --- Numismatiek. Muntkunde--Geschiedenis van ...--Middeleeuwen --- 902 <492 DORESTAD> Archeologie--Nederland--DORESTAD --- Archeologie--Nederland--DORESTAD --- Conferences - Meetings --- Art, Carolingian --- Money --- Art carolingien --- Monnaie --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Wijk bij Duurstede (Pays-Bas) --- Dorestad --- Antiquities --- Netherlands --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Archaeology --- trade [general function]

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History of the Netherlands --- Wijk bij Duurstede --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Dorestad (Extinct city) --- Wijk bij Duurstede (Netherlands) --- Dorestad (Ville ancienne) --- Wijk bij Duurstede (Pays-Bas) --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Dorestad (Extinct city). --- Netherlands --- Antiquities. --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Antiquités --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology

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In July 2014, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden hosted the second Dorestad congress, exactly five years after the first. This congress was attached to the exhibition Golden Middle Ages: The Netherlands in the Merovingian World, 400-700 AD and brought together scholars to discuss these 'Dark Ages', their burials and settlements, rituals and identities, and the position of the Low Countries in the world-wide networks of early-medieval Europe. The congress opened with a keynote lecture by dr. Gareth Williams (The British Museum). Sessions were devoted to key themes like early-medieval identity and agency, so-called royal burials in Europe, significant find categories like garnets, coins and Merovingian glass, important new sites and finds from the Low Countries and recent work in the Carolingian &#x91;vicus famosus&#x92; of Dorestad.

Merovingians --- Mérovingiens --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Netherlands --- Europe --- Dorestad (Extinct city) --- Pays-Bas --- Dorestad (Ville ancienne) --- Antiquities --- History --- Antiquités --- Histoire --- Fornlämningar --- Medeltiden --- Nederländerna --- Fornlämningar. --- Medeltiden. --- Antiquities. --- Conferences - Meetings --- History of Europe --- anno 500-1499 --- Middle Ages --- Social life and customs --- Group identity --- Middle Ages, 500-1500