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Early Medieval

Pattern and Purpose in Insular Art
edited by Mark Redknap, Nancy Edwards, S Youngs, A Lane and J Knight
The twenty-five papers, taken from a Cardiff conference in 1998, are concerned with Insular art in its broadest sense, encompassing studies of metalwork, manuscripts, sculpture and textiles, both recent discoveries and new investigations of well-known objects. They include material associated with Anglo-Saxon England as well as early Medieval Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and discoveries of Insular metalwork in Scandinavia. They are divided into ...
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Die Baubefunde des fruhmittelalterlichen Seehandelsplatzes Von Gross..
by Astrid Tummuscheit
Mit diesem Band wird die Veröffentlichung der umfangreichen Ausgrabungen an dem frühmittelalterlichen Seehandelsplatz mit Gräberfeld fortgesetzt. Im Mittelpunkt des Werkes stehen die zahlreichen Baubefunde, die durch Ausgrabungen freigelegt und dokumentiert wurden: Grubenhäuser, Brunnen, Gruben, Feuerstellen und Gräben. Das Aussehen der zu Beginn des 8. Jahrhunderts im Bereich eines Naturhafens in der Wismar Bucht gegründeten und nach der Mitte ...
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The Christian Topography of Early Islamic Jerusalem: The Evidence of Willibald of Eichstatt (700-787 CE)
by Rodney Aist
The Anglo-Saxon missionary Willibald is well-known for his extensive travels as related in Hugeburc's contemporary Vita Willibaldi. This book is a detailed study of this work and the extensive information it provides for the topography of Jerusalem at the time of Willibald's pilgrimage there of 724-6. Aist reassesses the identification of the various locations described in the Vita, and analyses the religious imagery and theological ideas ...
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Roman Barbarians: The Royal Court and Culture in the Early Medieval West
by Yitzhak Hen
This superb book incisively tackles the pervasive view that the fifth century onwards saw catastrophic cultural decline in the successor states of the western Empire, only halted by Charlemagne's Carolingian Renaissance. Through study of the court culture and patronage of such kings as Theoderic, Thrasamund, Chlothar II, Dagobert I and Sisebut Yitzhak Hen shows that these rulers continued to concern themselves intimately with promoting literary ...
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Wharram XI: The Churchyard
by S Mays, C Harding and C Heighway
This publication covers excavations in the churchyard of Wharram Percy, North Yorkshire. It complements a previous volume in this series (Wharram III), which was concerned with the excavation of the associated church and its interior. An extensive programme of radiocarbon dating indicates that the burial ground was established soon after the mid-10th century, before the first stone church was erected. This volume includes the definitive reports ...
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Social Identity in Early Medieval Britain
edited by William O Frazer and Andrew Tyrrell
The twelve essays in this book provide an interesting discussion of Early Medieval society and social life based on material evidence as well as theoretical concepts. This inter-disciplinary approach that takes in the fields of history, archaeology, social anthropology, sociology and social theory, dicusses aspects of ethnicity, national and personal identity, status and class, kinship and affiliation, gender and age distinctions, political ...
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History and Community: Norman Historical Writing in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
by Leah Shopkow
A study of the Norman historical tradition which considers the historians and their methods and models, and also the ways in which histories were used, and by whom they were read. Shopkow argues that historical writing reflected and helped to create particular views of Norman identity. Narratives became especially important during power struggles. As more of these instances occurred, histories became more widely disseminated and developed their ...
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Kingship and Unity: Scotland 1000-1306
by G. W. S. Barrow
Summing up more than three decades of Scottish history, Geoffrey Barrow's excellent historical and topical study is a great guide to social and political change in medieval Scotland. Assessing a range of historical and documentary sources he studies the evolution of kingship and government in Scotland, feudalism, changes to the rural economy, towns, trade, education and learning, and the Church. The importance of the area referred to as Lothian, ...
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Incipient Globalization? Long-Distance Contacts in the Sixth Century
edited by Anthea Harris
This volume, the proceedings of a 2005 conference looks at long-distance contacts and exchange and the collapse and creation of international systems during late antiquity. Broadly the papers posit that the decay of the Roman state lead to more not less ...
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Kings of the North Sea, AD 250-850
edited by Evert Kramer, Ingrid Stoumann and Andrew Greg
This is the English language edition of the catalogue that accompanies the archaeological/historical exhibition of the same name that has travelled throughout Northern Europe. Colour photographs of weapons, jewellery, ceramics and archaeological sites, as ...
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