Maritime environment and social identities in medieval coastal Flanders. The management of water and environment and its consequences for the local community and the landscape. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The salt marshes of Flanders were, although their position at the fringe of Neustrian and Carolingian power, never marginal. They were settled by a maritime society, involved in sheep-herding, fishing and exchange, living in beach sites as well as on terp-mounds. The material identity of settlements and commodities seems to indicate a certain connection with the maritime world of Frisians and Anglo-Saxon 'North Sea Cultures', as Anthony Heidinga ...