Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology And The Making Of The Early Middle Ages

Author : Bonnie Effros
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520232445
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages written by Bonnie Effros and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-03-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation A history of the discovery and interpretation of medieval burials in Gaul (what would eventually become France).

Author : Bonnie Effros
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520928180
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages written by Bonnie Effros and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-03-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed them, from the middle ages to the present, have speculated widely on their meaning. This authoritative book makes a major contribution to the study of death and burial in late antique and early medieval society with its long overdue systematic discussion of this mortuary evidence. Tracing the history of Merovingian archaeology within its cultural and intellectual context for the first time, Effros exposes biases and prejudices that have colored previous interpretations of these burial sites and assesses what contemporary archaeology can tell us about the Frankish kingdoms. Working at the intersection of history and archaeology, and drawing from anthropology and art history, Effros emphasizes in particular the effects of historical events and intellectual movements on French and German antiquarian and archaeological studies of these grave goods. Her discussion traces the evolution of concepts of nationhood, race, and culture and shows how these concepts helped shape an understanding of the past. Effros then turns to contemporary multidisciplinary methodologies and finds that we are still limited by the types of information that can be readily gleaned from physical and written sources of Merovingian graves. For example, since material evidence found in the graves of elite families and particularly elite men is more plentiful and noteworthy, mortuary goods do not speak as directly to the conditions in which women and the poor lived. The clarity and sophistication with which Effros discusses the methods and results of European archaeology is a compelling demonstration of the impact of nationalist ideologies on a single discipline and of the struggle toward the more pluralistic vision that has developed in the post-war years.

Author : Bonnie Effros
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0199696713
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncovering the Germanic Past written by Bonnie Effros and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume suggests how the slow genesis of Merovingian archaeology in France challenged the prevailing views of the population's exclusively Gallic ancestry. A history of the first century of the discipline, Effros' interdisciplinary study looks at the important contributions of medieval archaeological finds to modern French identity.

Author : Bonnie Effros
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271027852
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caring for Body and Soul written by Bonnie Effros and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2008-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between the living and the dead was especially significant in defining community identity and spiritual belief in the early medieval world. Peter Brown has called it the "joining of Heaven and Earth." For clerics and laypersons alike, funerals and burial sites were important means for establishing or extending power over rival families and monasteries and commemorating ancestors. In Caring for Body and Soul, Bonnie Effros reveals the social significance of burial rites in early medieval Europe during the time of the Merovingian (or so-called long-haired) kings from 500 to 800 C.E. Funerals provided an opportunity for the display of wealth through elaborate ceremonies involving the placement of goods such as weapons, jewelry, and ceramic vessels in graves and the use of aboveground monuments. In the late seventh century, however, these practices gave way to Masses and prayers for the dead performed by clerics at churches removed from cemeteries. Effros explains that this shift occurred not because inhabitants were becoming better Christians, as some have argued, since such activities were never banned or even criticized by the clergy. Rather, clerics successfully promoted these new rites as powerful means for families to express their status and identity. Effros uses a wide range of historical and archaeological evidence that few other scholars have mastered. The result is a revealing analysis of life and death that simultaneously underlines the remarkable adaptability and appeal of western Christianity in the early Middle Ages.

Author : Howard Williams
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789695287
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digging into the Dark Ages written by Howard Williams and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the ‘Dark Ages’ mean in contemporary society? Tackling public engagements through archaeological fieldwork, heritage sites and museums, fictional portrayals and art, and increasingly via a broad range of digital media, this is the first-ever dedicated collection exploring the public archaeology of the Early Middle Ages.

Author : William E. Mierse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520917332
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temples and Towns in Roman Iberia written by William E. Mierse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comparative study of Roman architecture on the Iberian peninsula, covering six centuries from the arrival of the Romans in the third century B.C. until the decline of urban life on the peninsula in the third century A.D. During this period, the peninsula became an influential cultural and political region in the Roman world. Iberia supplied writers, politicians, and emperors, a fact acknowledged by Romanists for centuries, though study of the peninsula itself has too often been brushed aside as insignificant and uninteresting. In this book William E. Mierse challenges such a view. By examining in depth the changing forms of temples and their placement within the urban fabric, Mierse shows that architecture on the peninsula displays great variation and unexpected connections. It was never a slavish imitation of an imported model but always a novel experiment. Sometimes the architectural forms are both new and unexpected; in some cases specific prototypes can be seen, but the Iberian form has been significantly altered to suit local needs. What at first may seem a repetition of forms upon closer investigation turns out to be theme and variation. Mierse brings to his quest an impressive learning, including knowledge of several modern and ancient languages and the archaeology of the Roman East, which allows him a unique perspective on the interaction between events and architecture.

Author : Duncan Sayer
Publisher : Exeter Studies in Medieval Eur
ISBN 13 : 9780859898799
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortuary Practices and Social Identities in the Middle Ages written by Duncan Sayer and published by Exeter Studies in Medieval Eur. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published: Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2009.

Author : Mirosław Rudnicki
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004381724
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Olsztyn Group in the Early Medieval Archaeology of the Baltic Region written by Mirosław Rudnicki and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the neglected problem of the Olsztyn Group. The prosperity and long-distance contact revealed by this cemetery shows that the West Baltic tribes had considerable influence in early medieval Europe, much more than scholars had been ready to admit until now.

Author : Kevin D. Murphy
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271041919
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory and Modernity written by Kevin D. Murphy and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hyun Jin Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110719041X
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages written by Hyun Jin Kim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative and interdisciplinary study of ancient and medieval Eurasian empires using historical, philological and archaeological evidence.