Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology And The Making Of The Early Middle Ages
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Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology And The Making Of The Early Middle Ages
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Author : Bonnie Effros
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-03-03
Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology And The Making Of The Early Middle Ages written by Bonnie Effros and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-03 with History categories.
Annotation A history of the discovery and interpretation of medieval burials in Gaul (what would eventually become France).
Uncovering The Germanic Past
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Author : Bonnie Effros
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Release Date : 2012-06-14
Uncovering The Germanic Past written by Bonnie Effros and has been published by Oxford University Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-14 with Art categories.
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.
Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology And The Making Of The Early Middle Ages
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Author : Bonnie Effros
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-03-03
Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology And The Making Of The Early Middle Ages written by Bonnie Effros and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-03 with Social Science categories.
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.
Caring For Body And Soul
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Author : Bonnie Effros
language : en
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Release Date : 2008-01
Caring For Body And Soul written by Bonnie Effros and has been published by Penn State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01 with History categories.
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.
The Oxford Handbook Of The Merovingian World
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Author : Bonnie Effros
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020
The Oxford Handbook Of The Merovingian World written by Bonnie Effros and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
Examines research from a variety of fields, including archaeology, bio-archaeology, architecture, hagiographic literature, manuscripts, liturgy, visionary literature and eschalology, patristics, numismatics, and material culture, Diverse list of contributors, many whose research has never before been available in English, Provides substantial research regarding women's history in the Merovingian period, Expands research beyond Europe to include other cultures that came in contact with the Merovingians Book jacket.
Framing The Early Middle Ages
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Author : Chris Wickham
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2006-11-30
Framing The Early Middle Ages written by Chris Wickham and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-30 with History categories.
The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses of socio-economic change in the post-Roman world since the 1930s. In recent decades, the rise of early medieval archaeology has also transformed our source-base, but this has not been adequately integrated into analyses of documentary history in almost any country. In Framing the Early Middle Ages Chris Wickham combines documentary and archaeological evidence to create a comparative history of the period 400-800. His analysis embraces each of the regions of the late Roman and immediately post-Roman world, from Denmark to Egypt. The book concentrates on classic socio-economic themes, state finance, the wealth and identity of the aristocracy, estate management, peasant society, rural settlement, cities, and exchange. These give only a partial picture of the period, but they frame and explain other developments. Earlier syntheses have taken the development of a single region as 'typical', with divergent developments presented as exceptions. This book takes all different developments as typical, and aims to construct a synthesis based on a better understanding of difference and the reasons for it.
The Construction Of Communities In The Early Middle Ages
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Author : Richard Corradini
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2003
The Construction Of Communities In The Early Middle Ages written by Richard Corradini and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
This volume provides a complex discussion of the variety of social efforts which were undertaken to create meaningful communities in the process of the formation of the early medieval gentes and kingdoms in the post-Roman west.
From Roman Provinces To Medieval Kingdoms
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Author : Thomas F. X. Noble
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2006
From Roman Provinces To Medieval Kingdoms written by Thomas F. X. Noble and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Europe categories.
How, when and why did the Middle Ages begin? This reader gathers together a prestigious collection of revisionist thinking on questions of key research in medieval studies.
Digging Into The Dark Ages
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Author : Howard Williams
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2020-02-27
Digging Into The Dark Ages written by Howard Williams and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-27 with Social Science categories.
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.
The Modern Origins Of The Early Middle Ages
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Author : Ian Wood
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-26
The Modern Origins Of The Early Middle Ages written by Ian Wood and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-26 with History categories.
"[The book's] subject matter is the changing interpretation within Europe of the end of the Roman Empire and the early Middle Ages from the eighteenth century to the present and how individual interpretations influenced and were influenced by the circumstances in which they were written."--Preface.