TABLE OF CONTENTS: Terry BARRY: Foreword. Terry BARRY: An introduction to dispersed and nucleated medieval rural settlement in Ireland. Ingvild OYE: Norway in the Middle Ages: farms or hamlets - and villages too?. Johnny DE MEULEMEESTER - Denis HENROTAY - Philippe MIGNOT: Facteurs du regroupement villageois entre Meuse et Moselle au Sud de la Meuse (Belgique/Grand-Duche de Luxembourg). Une appreciation actuelle des connaissances archeologiques. David THOMPSON - Mike YATES: Deserted rural settlement in Wales - a framework for study, a strategy for protection. Dorthe KALDAL MIKKELSEN: Single farm or village? Settlement structure during the late Iron Age and Viking Period. Andras PALOCZI-HORVATH: Donnees demographiques sur la structure de lhabitat rural medieval en Hongrie. Maria BERES: Archaologische Angaben zur Einzelhofe in der Turkenzeit zwischen der Donau und Theiss. Francoise PIPONNIER: Le castrum dEssertines (Loire): un habitat groupe dans un contexte dhabitat disperse. Kieran D. OCONOR: The ethnicity of Irish moated sites. Tadhg OKEEFFE: Reflections on the "dispersed-nucleated" paradigm in medieval settlement archaeology. Yassir BENHIMA: Fortification et formes de lhabitat: deux exemples de la region de Safi (Maroc). Jean-Marie BLAISING: Evolution de lhabitat sur le terroir de Yutz (Moselle - France). Anne Birgitte SORENSEN: Ostergard: A medieval rural settlement in southern Jutland through time, emphasizing the period 1000-ca. 1200. Edit TARI: The role of churches in the development of the permanent villages (medieval village structure in the area of Cegled). Felix RETAMERO: Gorge builders - Andalusi peasant settlements in the South of Minorca Island (10th-13th). Ludvik BELCREDI: Colonization, development and desertion of the medieval village of Bystrec. Nikolaj MAKAROV: Medieval rural settlement in Nothern Russia: nucleated villages and hamlets in the Beloozero - Kubenskoe region between 900 and 1250 A.D. Christel BUCKER - Michael HOEPER: Dispersed and nucleated settlements in southwest Germany in Merovingian times. Paul EVERSON: Dispersed settlement in England in the National Mapping Programme. Miklos TAKACS: Nucleated and/or dispersed settlements from the Arpadian and the Angevin age in the West Hungarian region of Kisalfold. Piers DIXON: Nuclear and dispersed medieval rural settlement in southern Scotland. Susanne ARNOLD: "Nucleated and dispersed" unter dem Aspekt von Wustungsprozessen und damit verbundenen Siedlungskonzentrationen an ausgewahlten Beispielen aus dem Sudwesten Deutschlands. John BRADLEY: Rural boroughs in medieval Ireland: nucleated or dispersed settlements? Jan KLAPTE - Zdenek SMETANKA - Martin TOMAEK: The medieval Bohemian town and its hinterland.