THE GREAT HALL complex represents one of the most distinctive and evocative expressions of the Anglo-Saxon settlement record, and is widely cited as a metaphor for the emergence of kingship in early medieval England. Yet interpretation of these sites remains underdeveloped and heavily weighted towards the excavated findings from the well-known site of Yeavering in Northumberland. Inspired by the results of recent excavations at Lyminge, Kent, this paper undertakes a detailed comparative interrogation of three great hall complexes in Kent, and exploits this new regional perspective to advance our understanding of the agency and embodied meanings of these settlements as ‘theatres of power’. Explored through the thematic prisms of place, social memory and monumental hybridity, this examination leads to a new appreciation of the involvement of great hall sites in the genealogical strategies of 7th-century royal dynasties and a fresh perspective on how this remarkable, yet short-lived, monumental idiom was adapted to harness the symbolic capital of Romanitas.

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Oiscingas 的 Mead-Halls：对盎格鲁-撒克逊大厅复合现象的新肯特视角

大厅建筑群代表了盎格鲁-撒克逊人定居记录中最独特和最令人回味的表达方式之一，并被广泛引用为中世纪早期英格兰出现王权的隐喻。然而，对这些遗址的解释仍然不充分，并且很大程度上依赖于诺森伯兰郡著名的 Yeavering 遗址的挖掘结果。受肯特郡莱明格近期发掘结果的启发，本文对肯特郡的三个大厅建筑群进行了详细的比较询问，并利用这种新的区域视角来加深我们对这些定居点作为“剧院”的机构和体现意义的理解。力量 '。通过地方、社会记忆和纪念性混合的主题棱镜进行探索，