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Note publique d'information : 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.